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| Keywords: Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1881. 7900.png 42 drawings graphite colored pencil and ink ; 61 x 92 cm Click to view image set Slideshow Bio / His Notes Red Horse was a chief of the Miniconjou division of the Teton Dr Charles E McChesney was an Army physician based at Fort Bennet Dakota Territory in 1881 Summary Sheets are numbered 0-41 Number 27 missing 1 page Manuscript in Charles E McChesney's hand summarizing subjects as follows Sheets 1-5 Soldiers approaching village; 6-10 Indian village; 11-15 Indians charging soldiers; 16-20 Custer's column fighting; 21-25 Dead cavalry horses--Custer's; 26-30 Dead Sioux killed by Custer's column; 31-35 Dead Cavalry--Custer's column; 36-41 Indians leaving the battle ground Provenance The drawings were produced by Red Horse at the request of Dr McChesney as illustrations to accompany the story of the battle which he recorded in support of Garrick Mallery's study of Plains sign language They were made at the Cheyenne River Agency in 1881 Correspondence regarding their production is located in the BAE Correspondence files Place of creation United States South Dakota Cheyenne River Agency Cite as Manuscript 2367-a National Anthropological Archives Smithsonian Institution Publication Map and Numbers 5 8 12 16 27 now missing 30 32 39 and 41 published by Mallery in Picture Writing of the American Indians Bureau of American Ethnology-AR 10 Washington D C 1893 as Plates 39-48 http //collections si edu/search/slideshow_embedded xml 22http //sirismm si edu/naa/viewer/2367-a_Gallery/viewer_2367-a xml 22 creator Red Horse PD-100 Red Horse Uploaded with VicuñaUploader Ledger art | ||||
