"Brave Heart" Run - Bozeman Trail
Ethnographic Notes
This depicts a "brave-heart" run along an entrenched, enemy position on the edge of a well-traveled road, almost certainly the Bozeman Trail (upper right). The large number of rifles denotes that the enemy force are Whitemen, probably soldiers. The purpose of the run was to empty the enemy's single-shot Springfield carbines, so that other Lakota might safely countercharge. Bay mare with white stockings; Horse paint: yellow circles on shoulders, hips & jaws, with stripe along spine; personal war lance with 2 tabs of 3 tiers of feathers.
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Plate No: 4
Page No: 6
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches
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Essays
- Red Cloud Agency by Nebraska State Historical Society
- Facsimile of Sitting Bull's Pictorial Autobiography in Smithsonian Museum, Washington by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
- Sitting Bull - Saville Ledger - Oglala Lakota by Ross Frank
- Saville Investigation by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876
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