Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
- See more items in
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.4: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by artifact or Winter Count
- Date
- 1877-1879
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Bibliography
- Published in papers by Garrick Mallery in the 4th and 10th Annual Reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology. See also, The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian, C. Greene and R. Thornton, eds, 2005.
- Scope and Contents
- Cloud Shield and American Horse produced this version of their winter counts in a book provided by William Corbusier in 1879, either on the Pine Ridge Reservation or nearby Camp Sheridan, Nebraska. Corbusier sent the book and associated interpretations to Col. Garrick Mallery of the Bureau of American Ethnology. American Horse (1840-1908) was an Oglala chief.
- Collection Restrictions
- Manuscript 2372 is open for research. Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1583874062187-1583874062537-1
