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Show 180 PICTOGRAPII8 OP THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS. 236. Sits- likc- a- Woman. 237. Surrounds- them. 238. High- Bear. 239. Don't- turn. 240. Black- Bird. 241. Swallow. 242. Little- Elk. 243. Little- Bird. 244. Bear- Back. 245. Little- Back. 246. Buffalo- Horn. 247. Iron- Bird. 248. Bull. 249. Eagle- Track. 250. Medicine- Bird. 251. Fox. 252. White- Bear. 253. Tall- Panther. 254. Gun. 255. Ring. 256. Beads. 257. Wolf. 258. Black- Horse. 259. White- Horse. 260. Spotted- Owl. 261. Don't- turn. 262. Red- Star. No. 263. 264. 265. 266. 267. 268. 269. 270. 271. 272. 273. 274. 275. 276. 277. 278. 279. 280. 281. 282. 283. 284. 285. 286. 287. 288. 289. Big- Voiced- Eagle. White- Elk. Porcupine. Noon. Warrior. Eagle- Feather. Round. Big- Thunder. Shot- His- Horse. Red- Bear. Little- Moon. Feather- Necklace. Fast- Elk. Black Bull. Light. Black- Deer. White- Oow- Man. Horse tbe- Clothing. Stabber. Eagle Swallow. Afraid- of- him. Red- Boy. Dog- with- good- voice. Tall- Pine. Pipe. Few- Tails. Medicine- man. The remark made above ( page 176) in counectiou with the Ogalala Roster, acknowledging the paucity of direct information as to details while presenting the pictographs as sufficiently interpreted for the present purposes by the translation of the personal names, may be here repeated. The following notes are, however, subjoined as of some assistance to the reader: No. 2. Top- man, or more properly " man above," is drawn a short distance above a curved liue, which represents the character for sky inverted. The gesture for sky is sometimes made by passing the hand from east to west describing an arc. The Ojibwa pictograph for the same occurs in Plate IV, No. 1, beneath which a bird appears. No. 9. The character is represented with two waving lines'passing upward from the mouth, in imitation of the gesture- sign good talk, spiritual talk, as made by passing two extended and separated fingers ( or all fingers separated) upward and forward from the mouth. This gesture is made when referring either to a shaman or to a christian clergyman, or to a house of worship, and the name seems to have been |