. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. PICTOGRAPH NO. IO.— KILLING OF FIVE INDIANS. says that the Arikara are delineated as wearing the top-knot of hair, simi-lar to that practiced by the Absaroka, the most inveterate enemies of theSioux ; as the word Pallani for Arikara is applied to all enemies, the Crowcustom may have been depicted as a generic mark. The practice of paint-ing the forehead red, also an Absaroka custom, serves to distinguish thepictures as individuals of one of the two PICTOGRAPH NO. II.—THE KILLING OF AN ARIKARA. MINOR TOPICSH. C. VAN SCHAACKS HI
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. PICTOGRAPH NO. IO.— KILLING OF FIVE INDIANS. says that the Arikara are delineated as wearing the top-knot of hair, simi-lar to that practiced by the Absaroka, the most inveterate enemies of theSioux ; as the word Pallani for Arikara is applied to all enemies, the Crowcustom may have been depicted as a generic mark. The practice of paint-ing the forehead red, also an Absaroka custom, serves to distinguish thepictures as individuals of one of the two PICTOGRAPH NO. II.—THE KILLING OF AN ARIKARA. MINOR TOPICSH. C. VAN SCHAACKS HISTORICAL TREASURES Editor of Magazine of American History : I perceive that you have published, in the August number of your Magazine, abrief notice of my collection of Revolutionary Manuscripts. Had my esteemedfriend who wrote that article informed me that he intended to do so and to pub-lish it, I should have given him opportunity for preparing a fuller description. Ashe only made a brief friendly call, at my house, of less than half an hour, whenI showed him my work, you will perceive how limited was his opportunity for ex-amining the contents of three large folio volumes containing about nine hundredpages of matter. His brief account is correct as far as it goes. I deem it proper,however, under the circumstances, and that it should not subject me to the chargeof vanity, to place before your readers a more complete sketch of a work whichhas been to me a labor of love, at intervals of leisure, for half
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