38 A bull elk runs from right to left across the page (extended legs show motion). He has dark shoulders and yellow body. He has a small rack of antlers (three by three points), and his round eye is created by an outlined circle of unpigmented paper, contrasting with the dark hide around it. Penciled details include antlers, ears, beard, split hooves, dewclaws, genitalia, midsection (ribs ?), and tail. Composition of the drawing resembles the same right-to-left, full-page orientation of human warrior portraits. Twelve nearly identical images of this male elk appear in this ledger (plates 19-23; 30, 32, 37-41). See further discussion for plate 19. 39 Two courting couples face each other. All have robes with beaded Lakota medicine wheel strips (see discussion, plate 1). The composition of this drawing resembles the courtship scene of plate 19. The first and third men, facing to the left and in the dominant right-to-left positions, wear German silver hairplate ornaments that trail to the ground. One man has an eagle feather attached at the first concho (see plate 19). Despite the similarities to the previous drawing, differences occur in their dress. The first man wears a solid black robe with medicine-wheel beaded strip in the middle. His visible braid is unwrapped, and he wears leggings with a beaded black-and-white triangle or sacred mountain design up the seam. He wears a breech clout is black with undyed, white selvedge ends. He is crowded into the corner of the page, so no feet are visible. The woman facing him wears an identical blanket, but it is red. Her leggings and dress panel ends showing below the blanket are black. Her leggings have a black band and a white band at the ankles. The second man has a blue blanket with medicine-wheel beaded strip in the middle. His leggings are black with a vertical white stripe running up the seam, and his clout is black with undyed white selvedge ends. He also is so crowded onto the page that his feet do not show. The last woman has an identical blue blanket with medicine-wheel beaded strip in the middle. Her face is painted red at the hairline from the top of his head to below his ear. She wears blue leggings with four bands at each of the ankles. The ends of her dress panels showing below the blanket are red trade cloth edged with undyed selvedge ends. This is one of a sequence of drawings with similar composition (plates 19, 21-25). See plate 1 for further discussion of courtship conventions. Media: Lead pencil outlines, details, fill; blue crayon, red watercolor, black ink