Fig. 920 is taken from the winter count of Battiste Good for the year 1841-’42. He calls the year “Pointer-made-a-commemoration-of-the-dead winter.” Also “Deep-snow winter.”
The extended index denotes the man’s name, “Pointer,” the circular line and spots, deep snow.
The spots denoting snow occur also in other portions of this count, and the circle, denoting much, is in Fig. [260] connected with a forked stick and incloses a buffalo head to signify “much meat.” That the circle is intended to signify much is made probable, by the fact that a gesture for “much” is made by passing the hands upward from both sides and together before the body, describing the upper half of a circle, i. e., showing a heap.
Fig. 921.-Great, much.
Fig. 921, from Copway, gives the character meaning “great,” really “much.” See the above mentioned gesture.
OBSCURE.
Fig. 922.—Ring-Cloud.