Rest; dancing begins with next character. [Illustration] I, observing, follow your example. Man listening to water monster (spirit). [Illustration] You are my body; you see anybody; you see my nails are worn off in grasping the stone (from which medicine is taken). Bear, with claws, scratching; depression shown by line under claws, where scratching has been done. [Illustration] You (i. e., the spirits who are there), to whom I am speaking. Spirit panther. [Illustration] I am floating down smoothly. Spirit otter, swimming; outer lines are river banks. [Illustration] Rest. [Illustration] I have finished my drum. Spirit holding drum; sound ascending. [Illustration] My body is like unto you. This is the mī'gis shell--the special symbol of the Midē' wiwin. [Illustration] Hear me, thou, who art talking to me. Listening, and wanting others (spirits) to hear. [Illustration] See what I am taking. Spirit (Midē') taking “medicine root.” [Illustration] See me whose head is out of the water. Otters, two spirits, the left-hand one being the “speaker.” The Midē' song, Pl. XVIII, D, was also copied by “Little Frenchman” upon birchbark, from one in the possession of his preceptor, but upon which he had not yet received careful instruction; hence the incompleteness of some of his interpretations. It is reproduced from Pl. XXII, B, of the Seventh Ann. Rep. Bureau of Ethnology. [Illustration] I am sitting down with my pipe. Man sitting, holding a pipe. He has been called upon to “make medicine.” The short lines beneath the body represent that he is seated. He holds a filled pipe which he is not yet smoking. [Illustration] I, me the spirit, the spirit of the owl. Owl, held by Midē'; arm above bird. This character appears upon the Grand Medicine chart from Red Lake, as passing from the midē' lodge to the ghost lodge. [Illustration] It stands, that which I am going after. Tree; showing tracks made by bear spirit. The speaker terms himself equal with this spirit and represents himself seeking remedies. [Illustration] I, who fly. Medicine bag, flying. The figure is that of the thunder bird (eagle) whose skin was used for a bag. The trees beneath show the bird to have ascended beyond their tops. [Illustration] Kibinan is what I use--the magic arrow. An arrow, held by hand. [Illustration] I am coming to the earth. Otter spirit. Circle denotes the surrounding sky in which is the spirit. The earth is shown by the horizontal line above which is the Indian hut. The speaker likens himself to the otter spirit who first received the rites of the Midē' initiation. [Illustration] I am feeling for it. Man (spirit) seeking for hidden medicine. The circle represents a hole in the earth. [Illustration] I am talking to it.