Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . BOQl [IMSSiB]!F!rfl®MS on the UTTiLE COL®lPiAlD©s,M£W fc-lEX]©© ^.. SODSK ]KlS(DIS[l^T3®Fil§ J^©m TiE^®. ^ i-r- AND CnARACTER. 253 from a distance, denoted by check 48, and the result, it is inferable, is another recon-ciliation. Scene 4 denotes the robe-chief on horseback, and crowned with his head-feathers,driving a lance through the neck of an ar
Archives of aboriginal knowledge Containing all the original paper laid before Congress respecting the history, antiquities, language, ethnology, pictography, rites, superstitions, and mythology, of the Indian tribes of the United States . BOQl [IMSSiB]!F!rfl®MS on the UTTiLE COL®lPiAlD©s,M£W fc-lEX]©© ^.. SODSK ]KlS(DIS[l^T3®Fil§ J^©m TiE^®. ^ i-r- AND CnARACTER. 253 from a distance, denoted by check 48, and the result, it is inferable, is another recon-ciliation. Scene 4 denotes the robe-chief on horseback, and crowned with his head-feathers,driving a lance through the neck of an armed adversary, on foot. In 45 we beholdthe crowning act of the robe-chief, denoted by his dress, who comes in on foot from theprairie (47 check), to engage in a personal combat between three footmen, two of whomare shot through the breast with arrows, and the third knocked in the head with aclub. Such appear to be the leading scenes of this record, and such, indeed, is prairielife. 2. Comanche Inscription. Plate 32. This inscription is taken from the shoulder-blade of a buffalo, found on the plainsin the Comanche country of Texas. Fig. 5 is a symbol showing the strife for the buffaloexisting between the Indian and white races. The Indian (1), presented on horseback,protected by his ornamented s
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