d. Thus they denote that the belts which they gave to raise a war party and to avenge the death of some one, belonging to them or to some of the same tribe.
e. He has gone back to fight without having entered his village.
f. A man whom he killed on the field of battle, who had a bow and arrow.
g. These are two men, whom he took prisoners, one of whom had a hatchet and the other a gun in his hand.
gg. This is a woman who is designated only by a species of waistcloth.
Fig. 824 is taken from the Winter Count of Battiste Good for the year 1853-’54.
He calls the year Cross-Bear-died-on-the-hunt winter.
Fig. 824.—Cross-Bear’s death.
The character on the extreme left hand is a “travail,” and means they moved; the buffalo, to hunt buffalo; the bear with mouth open and paw advanced, cross-bear. The involute character frequently repeated in Battiste’s record signifies pain in the stomach and intestines, resulting in death. In this group of characters there is not only the brief story, an obituary notice, but an ideographic mark for a particular kind of death, a noticeable name-totem, and a presentation of the Siouan mode of transportation.