No. III. A Minneconjou Dakota, named Two-Arrows, built himself a dirt medicine-lodge. This the interpreter calls, rather inaccurately, a headquarters for dispensing medicines, charms, and nostrums to the different bands of Dakotas. The black and red lines above the roof are not united and do not touch the roof. White-Cow-Killer calls it: “Two-Arrows-made-a-war-bonnet winter.” Battiste Good says: They made bands of strips of blankets in the winter. Major Bush says: A Minneconjou, named Two-Arrow, made medicine in a dirt-lodge. It will be observed that the interpreters vary in the details. [Illustration: BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XVI 1821-’22. 1822-’23. 1823-’24. THE DAKOTA WINTER COUNTS.] 1821-’22.--No. I. Large ball of fire with hissing noise (aërolite). No. II. The character represents the falling to earth of a very brilliant meteor, and though no such appearance is on record, there were in 1821 few educated observers near the Upper Mississippi and Missouri who would take the trouble to notify scientific societies of the phenomenon. No. III. Dakota Indians saw an immense meteor passing from southeast to northwest which exploded with great noise (in Dakota Territory). Red-Cloud said he was born in that year. Battiste Good says: “Star-passed-by-with-loud-noise winter.” His device is shown in Figure 42, showing the meteor, its pathway, and the clouds from which it came. [Illustration: FIG. 42--Meteor.] White-Cow-Killer calls it “One-star-made-a-great-noise winter.” See also Cloud-Shield’s count, page 136. 1822-’23.--No. I. Trading store built at Little Missouri, near Fort Pierre. No. II.--Another trading house was built, which was by a white man called Big-Leggings, and was at the mouth of the Little Missouri or Bad River. The drawing is distinguishable from that for 1819-’20. No. III. Trading post built at the mouth of Little Missouri River. 1823-’24--No. I. Whites and Dakotas fight Rees. No. II. White soldiers made their first appearance in the region. So said the interpreter, Clément, but from the unanimous interpretation of others the event portrayed is the attack of the United States forces, accompanied by Dakotas, upon the Arikara villages, the historic account of which is as follows, abstracted from the annual report of J. C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, November 29, 1823: