Sitting Bull with shield charging ranch house with hanging laundry.
Ethnographic Notes
Sitting Bull, recognized by his painted shield, charges on foot toward a ranch house with laundry hanging on a line -- a unique depiction in Plains Indian Ledger art. The telegraph line shown behind the building denotes that it was located on the road along the North Platte River, probably near Julesburg, Nebraska, where there were on-going Indian attacks during January-February, 1865. The telegraph line was pulled down and all ranches and outbuildings were burned along 100 miles of the route, in retaliation for the Sand Creek Massacre, earlier in the winter.
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Plate No: 11
Page No: 22
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches
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Various owners
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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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