The Midē'-singer is of superior power, as designated by the horns and pointer upon his head. The lines from the ears indicate hearing. [Illustration] I am going into the medicine lodge. The Midē'wigân is shown with a line through it, to signify that the preceptor is going through it in imagination, as in the initiation. [Illustration] I am taking (gathering) medicine to make me live. The disks indicate the sacred objects sought for, which are successively obtained by the speaker, who represents the officiating shaman. [Illustration] I give you medicine, and a lodge, also. The Midē', as the personator of Makwá Man'idō, is empowered to offer this privilege to the candidate. [Illustration] I am flying into my lodge. Represents the thunder-bird, a deity flying into the arch of the sky, the abode of spirits or Man'idōs. The short lines cutting the curve are spirit lines. [Illustration] The spirit has dropped medicine from the sky where we can get it. The line from the sky, diverging to various points, indicates that the sacred objects fall in scattered places. [Illustration] I have the medicine in my heart. The singer’s heart is filled with knowledge relating to sacred objects from the earth. The song depicted in Pl. XVIII C, was drawn by “Little Frenchman,” an Ojibwa Midē' of the first degree, who reproduced it from a bark record belonging to his preceptor. “Little Frenchman” had not yet received instruction in these characters, and consequently could not sing the songs, but from his familiarity with mnemonic delineations of the order of the Grand Medicine of ideas he was able to give an outline of the signification of the figures and the phraseology which they suggested to his mind. In the following description the first line pertaining to a character is the objective description, the second being the explanation. It is furthermore to be remarked that in this chart and the one following the interpretation of characters begins at the right hand instead of the left, contrary to rule. The song is reproduced from. Pl. XXII, A, of the Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology: [Illustration] From the place where I sit. A man, seated and talking or singing. [Illustration] The big tree in the middle of the earth. Tree; inclosure represents the world as visible from a given spot of observation--horizon. [Illustration] I will float down the fast running stream. Stream of water; the spots indicate progress of traveler, and may be rude indications of canoes or equally rude foot tracks, the usual pictograph for traveling. [Illustration] The place that is feared I inhabit; the swift running stream. A spirit surrounded by a line indicating the shore. [Illustration] You who speak to me. Two spirits communing. [Illustration] I have long horns. Horned water monster. [Illustration]