Right: Blank Left: A courting couple fills the page. The water bucket to the far left indicates that the unchaperoned woman was interrupted in her daily chore of fetching water for the family. A water bucket, "floating" like in this example illustrates the ledger book convention of icons or glyphs that represent shared meaning. The chore of drawing water was one of the few times that proper Cheyenne girls were not chaperoned. This was an occasion for young couples to meet. Water buckets, therefore, imply courtship. George Bird Grinnell writes about courtship, a woman would appear alone �on her way to get wood or water.� The man "stepped up beside her, and threw his arms and his blanket around her, quite covering her person with the blanket. Then he held her fast and began to talk with her. If she did not like this, she broke away from him, and he went away from him, and he went away, much mortified; but if she listened to him, he might talk to her for an hour or two--perhaps much longer" (1923: 1, 132). For more information, see Michael Cowdrey, Arrow's Elk Society Ledger (PILA, print version: Santa Fe: Morning Star Gallery, 1999: 198). A black-robed warrior is in the dominant right-hand position. His left, vertical side of his face is painted red. He has two long black braids, and beneath the blanket shows one black breech clout flap. His legs are bare (uncolored). The woman also has the left half of her face painted red. She has one braid showing, which the man appears to touch. Her blanket is of black, white, blue, and red horizontal stripes. The vertical black and red stripes may be fringe or tassels; the blue and white stripes are solid. Three bands circle her ankles. These are similar to the black line �trails� drawn around the ankles of the honored �Sacred Woman� of the Sun Dance (Powell, 1969: 642). George Dorsey describes black lines as the representation of the four directional powers: �The first, or medicine-spirit of the south, was represented by a black circular line encompassing the right ankle; the west spirit by a line around the right wrist; the north spirit by a line around the left wrist; and the east spirit by a line around the right ankle� (1905: vol. 2, 105). One to four bands drawn on women�s ankles occur throughout the ledger. Her legs are bare.