Pawnee war party with bows and arrows. | Exploit shown in detail: Charge on foot by Sitting Bull.
Ethnographic Notes
A foot-charge by Sitting Bull on a party of 14 Pawnee warriors. We recognize the artist from his painted shield. Sitting Bull jumped down from his horse and charged one enemy, counting coup en passant, by smashing him in the face with his empty rifle, which was then thrown down. Continuing the same sprint, he shows himself then counting coup with a lance on another Pawnee, as 11 arrows fired by the crouching group on miss their target. The lance is that of an officer of the Wiciska (White Marked) Warrior Society, an organization in whose membership Sitting Bull is documented.
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Document Info
Plate No: 7
Page No: 9
Media: lead pencil, crayon, and ink
Dimensions: 9 1/2 inches by 7 1/2 inches
Custodian
Various owners
Artist
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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