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Nº16 Battle Scene with Sitting Bull

Ethnographic Notes

“The Indian man. and Sitting Bull/ man/ Both fight” (Artist’s inscription, verso)

“A battle scene involving Sitting Bull (see Nº9) is the subject of this drawing. Sitting Bull, carrying a crooked staff wrapped in otterskin (a sign of a brave man in a warrior society), has just shot an enemy's horse. The horse has fallen; the rider is thrown. Two other mounted warriors rush in. One wears a feathered headdress with a trailer and carries the feathered lance of a warrior society. The other wears the sash and carries the sword (see Nº25) of another warrior society. In keeping with traditional conventions, the action is not placed within a landscape setting and a minimal amount of depth is indicated by placing the figures behind each other.” (p.32)

William S. Wierzbowski and Helen M. Mangelsdorf in Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawing from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1985.


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Drawings made in 1879 by students at the Hampton Institute, Virginia. Donated to the Pennsylvania Academy of ...

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Plate No: 13
Page No: 1982_X_153
Media: Ink, watercolor, colored pencil on cream tagboard
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 11 in.
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Credit line: Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
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