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he has been in battle; how many prisoners he has taken; the post ordinarily is only four or five feethigh and much embellished.
a. These are punctures on his body.
. b. This is the way they mark when they have been to war, and when there is a bar extendingfrom one mark to the other, it signifies that after having been in battle, he did not come back to bisvillage and that he returned with other parties whom he met or formed.
c. This arrow, which is broken, denotes that they were wounded in this expedition.
d. Thus they denote that the belts which they gave to raise a war party and to avenge the deathof some one, belong to them or to some of the same tribe.
e. He has gone back to fight without having entered his village.
f. A man whom he killed on the field of battle who had a bow and arrows.
g. These are two men whom he took prisoners, one of whom had a hatchet, and the other a gunin his hand.
g. g. This is a woman who is designated only by a species of waistcloth.
h. This is the way they distinguish her from the men.
Such is the mode in which they draw their portraits.
A. This is the manner they paint the tribe of the Potatoe and not as it is on the other plate.
b. Is a stick set in the ground to the extremity of which two or three pieces of wood are attached,to denote the direction in which they went when they are hunting; and on the nearest tree theypaint the animal of the tribe to which they belong, with the numbers of guns they have; that is tosay if they are three men, they paint three guns, if they are more and there are some who have abow and no gun, they put down a bow.
When they return from hunting and are near the village they do the same thing and add the num-ber of beasts they have killed—that is to say, they paint the Deer , and the Stag from the head tothe neck; if some are male they add antlers; they paint the other animals entire; if they are somedays at the chase they mark the number as you see on the other plate.
c. Club which they use to break the skull when they are at war.