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Fight against Pawnee war party. | Exploit shown in detail: Lakota warrior lancing Pawnee holding bow and arrows, cavalry man to right unhorsed and killed previously.
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Document Info

Page No. 8
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches inches

Tribe

Lakota (Sioux), Lakota (Sioux) - Oglala

Custodian

Various owners

Provenance

Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Sotheby's sale (1987), New York, "Drawings by Sitting Bull at Red Cloud Indian Agency, now Fort Robinson, Neb[rask ...More

Essays & Videos

Facsimile of Sitting Bull's Pictorial Autobiography in Smithsonian Museum, Washington
by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876

Preliminary research on Sitting Bull - Saville Ledger
by Mike Cowdrey

Red Cloud Agency
by Nebraska State Historical Society

Saville Investigation
by THE DAILY GRAPHIC: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1876

Sitting Bull - Saville Ledger - Oglala Lakota
by Ross Frank


Keywords

gun, Sitting Bull, horse, Lakota, animals, rifle, battle, fighting scenes, horse stealing, lance, tipi, shield art, war shield, arrows, biographic, war pony

Ethnographic Notes


Attack on a Pawnee war party of 14 men. All are armed with bows & arrows, except one who has fired a rifle from behind a hill. Their lack of firearms denotes that these cannot have been scouts for General Patrick Connor's Powder River Expedition, so the encounter probably occurred in Nebraska, earlier than 1865.

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The outfit of the Pawnee warrior, or the lack of it ( he seems to wear only a belt) strongly reminds me the Pawnee warriors that appear on the Segesser hide painting number II, today in the New Mexico History Museum, which describes the battle between the forces leaded by Don Pedro de Villasur and Pawnee and Oto Indians. Check Thomas E. Chavez (Ed) A Moment in Time. The Odyssey of New Mexico%u2019s Segesser Hide Paintings. Rio Grande Books, 2012, and Hotz, Gottfried: The Segesser Hide Paintings. Masterpieces Depicting Spanish Colonial New Mexico. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1970.