. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 202. Wyoming, de, Washington, 1875, p. 207, Fig. 53, found in the WindRiver Valley, Wyoming Territory, was interpreted by members of a Sho-shoni and Banak delegation to Washington in 1880 as an Indian killedanother. The latter is very roughly delineated in the horizontal figure,but is also represented by the line under the hand of the upright figure,meaning the same individual. At the right is the scalp taken and thetwo feathers showing the dead warriors rank. The arm nearest theprostrate foe sh
. Annual report of the Bureau of ethnology to the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution ... Fig. 202. Wyoming, de, Washington, 1875, p. 207, Fig. 53, found in the WindRiver Valley, Wyoming Territory, was interpreted by members of a Sho-shoni and Banak delegation to Washington in 1880 as an Indian killedanother. The latter is very roughly delineated in the horizontal figure,but is also represented by the line under the hand of the upright figure,meaning the same individual. At the right is the scalp taken and thetwo feathers showing the dead warriors rank. The arm nearest theprostrate foe shows the gesture for same gesture appears in Fig. 203, from the same authority and locality. The scalp is here held forth, and thenumeral one is designated by the stroke at thebottom. Fig. 204, from the same locality and author-ity, was also interpreted by the Shoshoni andBanak. It appears from their description thata Blackfoot had attacked the habitation ofsome of his own people. The right-hand upperfigure represents his horse with the lance sus-pended from the side. The lower f
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