Right page: The figure on the left is in dancing costume, wearing a red-dyed roach headdress made from porcupine guard hair, and the long tail hairs of a white tail deer. The dancer wears a short breech cloth with the ends tucked up, a dentalia choker, and a pair of brass or nickel- silver armbands. Blue horse tracks indicating animals successfully stolen are painted on his legs. In his right hand he carries a knife-blade warclub, a weapon more typical of the Lakotas than the Cheyennes. 14

Another man some distance away is in the act of killing the dancer by shooting him through the back with a rifle. Blood issuing from the victim's mouth indicates that his lungs have been pierced. Whether this was an accidental or intentional killing cannot be certainly discerned from the drawing. This unusual scene is undoubtedly based in reality. If an historical description of this incident could be located, in one of the reports for Darlington Agency or Fort Reno, that would be the best means for precisely dating this ledger.