1820-’21.--No. I. The Dakotas assaulted and took a Crow village of a hundred lodges. They killed many and took many prisoners. No. II. A Dakota, named Glue, froze to death. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Two-arrows-made-a-war-bonnet winter.” 1821-’22.--No. I. They had all the _mini wakan_ (spirit water or whisky) they could drink. They never had any before. A barrel with a waved or spiral line running from it represents the whisky, the waved line signifying spirit. No. II. A large roaring star fell. It came from the east, and shot out sparks of fire along its course. Its track and the sparks are shown in the figure. See also page 111. White-Cow-Killer says, “One-star-made-a-great-noise winter.” Battiste Good, alias Wa-po-ctan-qi (Brown-Hat), historian and chief, designated this year as that of his birth. Omaha bullets were whizzing through the village and striking and piercing his mother’s lodge as she brought him forth. Red-Cloud also was born. 1822-’23.--No. I. Dog, an Oglála, stole seventy horses from the Crows. Each of the seven tracks stands for ten horses. A lariat, which serves the purpose of a long whip, and is usually allowed to trail on the ground, is shown in the man’s hand. No. II. A Brulé, who had left the village the night before, was found dead in the morning outside the village, and the dogs were eating his body. The black spot on the upper part of the thigh shows he was a Brulé. White-Cow-Killer says, “White-man-peels-the-stick-in-his-hand-broke-his-leg winter.” [Illustration: BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLII 1823-’24. 1824-’25. 1825-’26. 1826-’27. 1827-’28. 1828-’29. THE CORBUSIER WINTER COUNTS.] 1823-’24.--No. I. They had an abundance of corn, which they got at the Ree villages. No. II. They joined the whites in an expedition up the Missouri River against the Rees. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Old-corn-plenty winter.” For further explanation of the record of this year, see page 111. 1824-’25.--No. I. Cloud-Bear, a Dakota, killed a Dakota, who was a long distance off, by throwing a bullet from his hand and striking him in the heart. The spiral line is again used for _wakan_. The gesture-sign for _wakan_ (holy, supernatural) is: With its index-finger extended and pointing upward, or all the fingers extended, back of hand outward, move the right hand from just in front of the forehead spirally upward nearly to arm’s length from left to right. [See “Sign Language N. A. Indians,” p. 380, by the present writer, in the First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology.]