A pictorial record or chronicle of the events of each year, kept by various North American Indian peoples.
图画编年史（北美洲印第安人的一种图片记录或编年的记录，记录每年的重大事件）
Example sentencesExamples
In all, the epidemic appears in at least thirteen different winter counts kept by plains Indians in the years 1779-83.
The timing of population increases documented by early winter counts in Maine closely paralleled those of breeding populations along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec and eastward to the Maritimes.
Landscapes of ancient sites, natural features, and human memories are treated as historical texts, the winter count used by Plains peoples inspiring the book's title.
Amos Bad Heart Bull the Elder, was the tribe historian charged with creating the ‘winter count,’ a pictographic representation of the major events in the tribe's history.
Jackson tries to locate ‘the Indian voice’ and illuminate the ‘darkness of the past,’ considering winter counts and painted buffalo robes in addition to the accounts of trappers and missionaries.
Definition of winter count in US English:
winter count
noun
A pictorial record or chronicle of the events of each year, kept by various North American Indian peoples.
图画编年史（北美洲印第安人的一种图片记录或编年的记录，记录每年的重大事件）
Example sentencesExamples
Landscapes of ancient sites, natural features, and human memories are treated as historical texts, the winter count used by Plains peoples inspiring the book's title.
In all, the epidemic appears in at least thirteen different winter counts kept by plains Indians in the years 1779-83.
Jackson tries to locate ‘the Indian voice’ and illuminate the ‘darkness of the past,’ considering winter counts and painted buffalo robes in addition to the accounts of trappers and missionaries.
The timing of population increases documented by early winter counts in Maine closely paralleled those of breeding populations along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec and eastward to the Maritimes.
Amos Bad Heart Bull the Elder, was the tribe historian charged with creating the ‘winter count,’ a pictographic representation of the major events in the tribe's history.