MS 1929-B Sitting Bull Pictographic Autobiography

MS 1929-b Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography

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Collection Overview ...... 1 Administrative Information ...... 1 Local Numbers...... 2 Scope and Contents...... 1 Place...... 2 Place...... 2 Album Information...... 2 Bibliography...... 2 Names and Subjects ...... 2 Container Listing ...... 3 MS 1929-b Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography NAA.MS1929B

Collection Overview

Repository: National Anthropological Archives

Title: MS 1929-b Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography

Identifier: NAA.MS1929B

Date: 1882

Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

Extent: 22 Drawings (graphite, colored pencil, and ink; 21 x 34 cm.)

Language: English .

Digital Image(s): Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography Content:

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information Smith, Robert A. Provenance Drawn on the leaves of an Army ledger book by Sitting Bull while he was held prisoner at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory in 1882. They were acquired at that time by Lt. Wallace Tear together with explanations from Sitting Bull of each image. Tear sent them to Gen. John C. Smith, and they were donated to the BAE by the general's son Robert A. Smith in 1923. Citation Manuscript 1929-b, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

Scope and Contents

Pictures of Sitting Bull's war deeds, drawn by himself, with accompanying explanations. Each sheet autographed in cursive hand by Sitting Bull. The scenes are not in chronological order. The pictures were originally drawn on the front leaves of a bound volume of ruled paper and were removed by the archives for lamination. The remaining volume has 8 leaves with mounted newspaper clippings about Sitting Bull, and many additional blank leaves. Inside front cover inscribed "For Gen'l J.C. Smith, No 250 West Van Buren St, Chicago, Ill," and "Fort Randall, DT, April 14, 1882." Nine page handwritten explanation of each drawing, as dictated by Sitting Bull, also removed from volume. Also includes autograph letter signed from W. Tear, Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, August 10 and 16, 1882, 2 pages and typed carbon copy transcription. Three 4" X 5" color transparencies of drawings 1, 10, and 11 filed with 1929-b.

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Bibliography

For history, description, and reproductions, see M. W. Stirling, "Three Pictographic Autobiographies of Sitting Bull," SMC volume 97, number 5, Washington, D. C., 1938, pages 25-48.

Local Numbers

NAA MS 1929B

Place

United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall.

Place

United States South Dakota Fort Randall.

Album Information

MS 1929B 000

Names and Subject Terms

This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms:

Subjects: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)

Cultures: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)

Types of Materials: Ledger drawings Newsclippings Pictographs -- Lakota

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Container Listing

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing an Assiniboine, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08589700 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 001 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Assiniboines, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08589800 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 002 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Assiniboines, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08589900 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 003 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)

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Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Assiniboines, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590000 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 004 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing an Assiniboine woman, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590100 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 005 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing an Assiniboine woman, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590200 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 006 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney)

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Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing an Assiniboine woman, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590300 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 007 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590400 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 008 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Assiniboines, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590500 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 009 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590600 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 010 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing a Crow woman, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590700 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 011 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590800 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 012 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

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Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08590900 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 013 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him capturing Jumping Bull, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591000 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 014 Depicted: Jumping Bull Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Arikaras, striking down Bull Head, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591100 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 015 Depicted: Bull Head, (Blackfeet chief) Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Sahnish (Arikara) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow scouts accompanying General Nelson A. Miles, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890

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Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591200 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 016 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Flatheads, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591300 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 017 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Salish (Flathead) Indians of North America -- Plateau Northwest Coast

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591400 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 018 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591500

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NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 019 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Crow Indians, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591600 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 020 Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

Sitting Bull drawing of him in battle with Assiniboines, 1882 1 Drawing (graphite and colored pencil; 21 x 34 cm.) Creator: Sitting Bull, 1831-1890 Language: English. Notes: NAA INV 08591700 NAA MS 1929b United States Dakota Territory Fort Randall. United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 021 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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United States South Dakota Fort Randall. MS 1929B 022 Topic: Assiniboin Genre/Form: Pictographs -- Lakota Ledger drawings Culture: Hunkpapa Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux) Assiniboine (Stoney) Indians of North America -- Great Plains

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