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Show 116 PICTOGRAPHS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. Another account in the catalogue of Catlin's cartoons gives the portrait of The One- Horn as number 354, with the statement that having killed his only son accidentally, he became deranged, wandered into the prairies, and got himself killed by an infuriated buffalo bull's horns. This was at the mouth of Little Missouri River, in 1834. 1833-' 34.- No. L Many stars fell ( meteors). The character shows six black stars above the concavity of the moon. No. II. " The stars fell," as the Indians all agreed. This was the great meteoric shower observed all over the United States on the night of November 12th of that year. In this chart the moon is black and the stars are red. No. III. Dakotas witnessed magnificent meteoric showers 5 much terrified. Battiste Good calls it " Storm- of- stars winter," and gives as the device a tipi, with stars falling around it. This is presented in Figure 44. The tipi is colored yellow in the original, and so represented in the figure according to the heraldic scheme. White- Oow- Killer calls it " Plenty- stars winter." All the winter counts refer to this meteoric display. See page 138. 1834-, 35.- No. I. A Bee killed by a Dakota. No. II. The chief, Medicine- Hide, was killed. The device shows the body as bloody, but not the war bonnet, by which it is distinguished from the character for 1830-' 31. No. III. An Uncpapa Dakota Medicine- man killed FIQ. 44.- Meteoric shower. by the Bee Indians. Mato Sapa says: An Uncpapa medicine- man was killed by Bees. There is no red on the figure. 1835-' 36.- No. I. Lame- Deer killed by a Dakota. The Dakota had only one arrow. He pulled it out and shot'Lame- Deer many times. No. II. Lame- Deer shot a Crow Indian with an arrow; drew it out and shot him again with the same arrow. The hand is drawing the arrow from the first wound. This is another instance of the principle on which events were selected. Many fights occurred of greater moment, but with no incident precisely like this. No. III. Minneconjou chief named Lame- Deer shot an Assiniboine three times with the same arrow. He kept so close to his enemy that he never let the arrow slip away from the bow, but pulled it out and shot it in again. Mato Sapa says a Minneconjou named Lame- Deer shot an Assiniboine three times running with the same arrow. Lame- Deer was a distinguished chief among the hostiles in 1876. His camp of five hundred and ten lodges was surprised and destroyed |