Front cover #2
Ethnographic Notes
See Alternate or Detail of this plate: Personal tally of battle wounds & war-damaged possessions: 5 personal wounds, 4 caused by bullets and 1 by an arrow; 9 wounds to his horses (bleeding horse tracks); damaged shield, shirt, blanket (stripes at each end), quiver & parfleche cylinder case for a headdress. This was probably the container in which Sitting Bull carried the stuffed hawk skin worn on his head in one of the Daily Graphic engravings. Note that he shows himself wounded and supported on two canes. Caption: Represents the number of wounds scored in all the [battles?].
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Plate No: 15
Page No: Front Cover #2
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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