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Show MALLHT. 1 DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS, 1840- 1848. 119 No. III. No buffalo; Indians made medicine to the Great Spirit bj painting a buffalo's head on lodge; plenty came. Mato Sapa says: Dakotas were starving; made medicine to Great Spirit by painting buffalo head on their lodges; plenty came. Major Bush substantially same as Mato Sapa. 1844- M5.- No. I. Mandans wintered in Black Hills. No. II. The Minneconjous built a pine fort. Device: A pine tree connected with a tipi. No. HI. Uu usually heavy snow; had to build corrals for ponies. Major Bush says : Heavy snow, in which many of their ponies perished. Probably the Indians went into the woods and erected their tipia there as protection from the snow, thus accounting for the figure of the tree. 1845-' 46- No. I. Dakotas have much feasting at Ash Point, 20 miles above Fort Sully. No. II. Plenty of buffalo meat, which is represented as hung upon poles and trees to dry. No. III. Immense quantities of buffalo meat. 1846-, 47.- No. I. Broken- Leg dies. No. II. Broken- Leg died. Rev. Dr. Williamson says he knew him. He was a Brul£. There is enough difference between this device and those for 180&-' 09 and 1832-' 33 to distinguish each. No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota named Broken- Leg died. Battiste Good calls this: " The- Teal- brokehis- leg winter." The arm in his character, given in Figure 45, is lengthened so as nearly to touch the broken leg, which is shown distorted, instead of indicating the injury by the mere distortion of the leg' itself as in the charts on Plate XXIV. The bird over the head and connected by a line with it, probably represents the teal as a name- totem. He was perhaps called Broken- Leg after the injury, or perhaps the other interpreters did not remember his name, only the circumstance. Mato Sapa says: A Minneconjou named Broken- Leg died. The Corbusier records for 1847-' 48 refer to a number of accidents by which legs were broken. See page 142. ^ 46._ The. 1847-, 43- No. I. Mandans kill two Minneconjous. T^ I- broke, hi* No. II. Two- Man was killed. His totem is drawn- two small man- figures side by side. No. III. Two Minneconjou Dakotas killed by the Assiniboine Indians. Major Bush says: the wife of an Assiniboine chief named Big- Thunder had twins. 1848-' 49.- No. I. Humpback, a Minneconjou, killed. i |