 | 1877 - 950 pages
...they cut the throats of their enemies. The Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most races, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs qf both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 376 pages
...some one peculiar event in each year, not to give a continuous history. It would have been difficult to have described in a graphic way the many battles,...is never used to denote less than a hundred. FIG. 18. 1812. — Wild horses were first run and caught by the Dakotas. The symbol is a lasso. The date... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 388 pages
...some one peculiar event in each year, not to give a continuous history. It would have been difficult to have described in a graphic way the many battles,...is never used to denote less than a hundred. FIG. 18. 1812. — Wild horses were first run and caught by the Dakotas. The symbol is a lasso. The date... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879 - 376 pages
...The symbol represents the worthy doctor holding a buffalo-head above his own. FIG. 12. 1811.—The Dakotas fought a battle with the Gros Ventres and...never used to denote less than a hundred. FIG. 13. 1812.—Wild horses were first run and caught by the Dakotas. The symbol is a lasso. The date is of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1886 - 792 pages
...they cut the throats of their enemies. The Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most peoples, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of Ethnology - America - 1886 - 792 pages
...they cut the throats of their enemies. The Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most peoples, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of... | |
 | Garrick Mallery - Haida Indians - 1886 - 814 pages
...they cut the throats of their enemies. The Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most peoples, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology - America - 1886 - 790 pages
...they cut the throats of their enemies. The Dakotas count by the fingers, as is common to most peoples, but with a peculiarity of their own. When they have gone over the fingers and thumbs of both hands, one finger is temporarily turned down for one ten. At the end of... | |
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Dakotas fought a battle with the Gros Ventres and killed a great many. Symbol, a circle, enclosing three round objects designed to represent heads. The Sioux appear to be inveterate cut-throats, and, in the sign language of the plains, they are denoted... 