Three Antelope
Ethnographic Notes
Three doe antelope, which the Lakota call “little white bellies,” (nigesanla---Buechel, 1970: 363). Compare Plate 56. The red bird is a long-billed curlew, which the Lakota call “the big one, scraped off clean,” (ticanica tanka), a reference to the long, curved beak, which was likened to a gnawed bone (Buechel, 1970: 474). The smaller wimbrel is called ticanica. The larval insect figure is unknown.