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Show 1 7 4 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. AW OGALALA B08TEB. Plates LII to LVIII represent a pictorial roster of the heads of families, eighty- four in number, in the band or perhaps clan of Chief Big- Row1 and were obtained by Rev. S. D. H in man at Standing Rock Ager Dakota, in 1883, from the United States Indian agent, Major MCLP lin, to whom the original was submitted by Chief Big- Road when b to that agency and required to give an account of his followers Chief Big- Road and his people belong to the Northern Oga* rately Oglala), and were lately hostile, having been assr Sitting- Bull in various depredations and hostilities again? and the United States authorities. Mr. Hinman states lations of the names were made by the agency intc though not as complete as might be, are, in the wh Chief Big- Road " is a man of fifty years and upwards, « *. rant and uncompromising a savage, in mind and appearance, could well And at this late date." The drawings in the original are on a single sheet of foolscap paper, made with black and colored pencils, and a few characters are in yellow ocher- water- color paint. On each of the seven plates, into which the original is here divided from the requirements of the mode of publication, the first figure in the upper left- hand corner represents, as stated, the chief of the sub- band, or perhaps, u family" in the Indian sense. On five of the plates the chief has before him a decorated pipe and pouch, the design of each being distinct from the others. On Plates LIV and LY the upper left hand figure does not have a pipe, which leads to the suspicion that, contrary to the information so far received, the whole of the figures from Nos. 11 to 45 inclusive, on Plates LIII, LIV, and LV, constitute one band under the same chief, viz., No. 11. In that case Nos. 23 and 36 would appear to be leaders of subordinate divisions of that band. Each of the five chiefs has at least three transverse bands on the cheek, with differentiation of the pattern. It will be noticed that each figure throughout the plates, which carries before it a war club, is decorated with three red transverse bauds, but that of No. 30, on Plate LIV, and No. 48 on Plate LVI, have the three bands without a war club. The other male figures seem in some instances to have each but a single red band; in others two bands, red and blue, but the drawing is so indistinct as to render this uncertain. It will be observed, also, that in four instances ( Nos. 14,44, 45, and 72) women are depicted as the surviving heads of families. Their figures do not have the transverse bands on the cheek. Also that the five chiefs do not have the war club, their rank being shown by pipe and pouch. Those men who are armed with war clubs, which are held vertically before the person, indicate ( in accordance with a similar custom among other branches of the Dakota Nation, in which, however, the pipe is held instead of the club) that the man has at some time led war parties on his own account. See pages 118 and 139. |