Horizontal WAR: BATTLE, Cheyenne Man Bearing a Moon Shield Chases Two Crow Enemy A fully outfitted Cheyenne man bears a red shield with thirteen feathers attached along the rim. A small blue crescent moon, turned downward, is at the top of the shield, and four dots run across the midsection. The same shield appears in Plate 38. The horseman holds this with his left hand. His face is painted red along the vertical hairline, and his visible braid in the profile drawing is wrapped in red trade cloth. A long German silver hairplate ornament, similar to the one scene in other Plates of this ledger, hangs from his scalplock, with one immature golden eagle feather attached to the top plate. He wears a tunic-length shirt, not colored (white), but with a dark (pencil-shaded) edge. His left arm shows an armband of German silver. Two dark breechclout flaps show against the horse, and one leg with beaded legging�a blue and white boxes strip along the vertical seam. The Cheyenne man�s lance floats between the two horses, showing a successful coup. The lance is like the one in the Northern Cheyenne-KSHS ledger (PILA), with large metal tip. Two immature golden eagle feathers are attached to the top and two more to the butt of the lance. This indicates a successful coup. The Cheyenne man on horseback dominates the Crow. The red horse has both blue and red cloth tied to its tail, which indicates deliberate preparation for war. The Crow warrior has the distinctive �hair spreader� worn by Crow men as an attachment to their distinctive hair style at that historic time (Lanford, 2003: 187, fig. 29). The man�s face is painted red along the crown, down to the ears. The Crow man has a belt of black-and-white boxes. He rides a red (sorrel) horse. His horse is superimposed over the Cheyenne man�s horse. A third figure, outlined, is behind him on that horse, apparently wrapped in a blanket. The gender is not clear, but perhaps a woman. Because of the distinctly different dress, this is most likely a third figure, not the Cheyenne man riding down the Crow man.