(Sitting Bull Drawings) HARPER’S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. Vol. XX – No. 1022. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1876.
(Sitting Bull Drawings) HARPER’S WEEKLY. A JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. Vol. XX – No. 1022. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1876.
(Sitting Bull) Important and scarce. SITTING BULL-AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE FAMOUS SIOUX CHIEF. Ed. By Porte Crayon. Article on pages 625 – 628. Illustrated with 15 of the original 55 titled drawings including SITTING BULL AS AN ARTIST; A HISTORIC SAVAGE; CHILDHOOD; HIS FIRST ADVENTURE; WITHOUT REGARD TO NUMBERS OF SEX; A REGULAR DUEL; SCALPS A TEAMSTER; KILLS A CROW INDIAN; KILLS A FRONTIERS-MAN; STORMS A CROW ENCAMPMENT AND TAKES THIRTY SCALPS; COUNTS COUP ON AN IRISHMAN; STEALS A DROVE OF HORSES; AN INCREDIBLE TAIL; BAGS A BEARER OF DISPATCHES and FINIS.
“About the year 1870 a collection of MS drawings, put up in book form, bearing the autograph of SITTING BULL and exhibiting a record of his exploits and adventures, was brought into Fort Buford by a Yanktonnais Sioux, and sold for a dollar and fifty cents worth of provisions. When cross-questioned regarding the ownership of the book, the Indian shuffled and prevaricated so as to confirm the belief that he had stolen it from a SITTING BULL himself. The authenticity of the work, with its general historical accuracy, is confirmed by Assistant-Surgeon James C. Kimball, U.S.A., who with the aid of interpreters, Indians, and others versed in the picture language of the Northwestern tribes, wrote a detailed explanation of the scenes represented, accompanied by a brief sketch of the warrior-artist life. The book was then forwarded to the Superintendent of the Army Medical Museum at Washington, who placed it in the hands of the present editor.”
“The series consists of fifty-five designs, drawn on the blank side of printed rosters of the Thirty-first United States Infantry, of uniform size (about eight by ten inches), clearly outlined with a pen and a brown ink resembling sepia.”
Dbd, each drawing fully described within the text of the article, condition consistent with age, minor toning, overall in vg cond.
