No. II. Cat-Owner was killed with a spider-web thrown at him by a Dakota. The spider-web is shown reaching to his heart from the hand of the man who threw it. The blood issuing from his mouth and nose indicates that he bled to death. It is a common belief among them that certain medicine men possess the power of taking life by shooting needles, straws, spider-webs, bullets, and other objects, however distant the person may be against whom they are directed. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Killed-the-women-picking-cherries winter.” 1825-’26.--No. I. Some of the Dakotas were living on the bottom-lands of the Missouri River, below the Whetstone, when the river, which was filled with broken ice, unexpectedly rose and flooded their village. Many were drowned or else killed by the floating ice. Many of those that escaped climbed on cakes of ice or into trees. No. II. Many of the Dakotas were drowned in a flood caused by a rise of the Missouri River, in a bend of which they were camped. The curved line is the bend in the river; the waved line is the water, above which the tops of the tipis are shown. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Great-flood-and-many-Indians-drowned winter.” [See page 113.] 1826-’27.--No. I. The brother of the Good-White-Man came. No. II. Held a commemoration of the dead. The pipe-stem and the skull indicate this. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Long-Whistle-sick winter.” 1827-’28.--No. I. The snow was very deep. No. II. In a fight with the Mandans, Crier was shot in the head with a gun. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Snow-shoe-making winter.” 1828-’29.--No. I. They provided themselves with a large supply of antelope meat by driving antelope into a corral, in which they were easily killed. No. II. They drove many antelope into a corral and then killed them. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Many-Rees-killed winter.” [Illustration: BUREAU OF ETHNOLOGY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL. XLIII 1829-’30. 1830-’31. 1831-’32. 1832-’33. 1833-’34. 1834-’35. THE CORBUSIER WINTER COUNTS.] 1829-’30.--No. I. Striped-Face stabbed and killed his son-in-law for whipping his wife. No. II. Spotted-Face stabs his son-in-law for whipping his wife. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Spotted-Face-held-on-long winter.” 1830-’31.--No. I. They saw wagons for the first time. Red-Lake, a white trader, brought his goods in them. No. II. The Crows were approaching a village at a time when there was a great deal of snow on the ground and intended to surprise it, but some herders discovering them the Dakotas went out, laid in wait for the Crows, surprised them, and killed many. A Crow’s head is represented in the figure. White-Cow-Killer calls it “Killed-many-white-buffalo winter.” 1831-’32.--No. I. Red-Lake’s house, which he had recently built, was destroyed by fire, and he was killed by the accidental explosion of some powder. No. II. A white man, whom they called Gray-Eyes, shot and killed a man who was working for him.