Lakota Oglala Indian Roster Dakota Territory 1886 Original Print 6
Names of the figures in the Ogala'Ca Roster. PL. LVII. 59. Iron- crow, 60. Running-horse,
61. Owns-an-animal-with-horns, 62. Blue-cloud-man, 63. Fingers, 64.
Sacred-teeth, 65. Searching-cloud, 66. Female-elk-boy, 67. Little-owl, 68.
Pretty-horse, 69. Running-eagle, 70. Makes enemy, 71. Prairie-chicken. 72.
Red-flute-woman.
130 year old original print from Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Washington Government Printing Office 1886. Pictographs of the North American Indians by Garrick Mallery.
“Plates LII to LYIII represent a pictorial roster of the heads
of families, eighty-four in number, in the band or perhaps clan of Chief
Big-Road, and were obtained at Standing Rock Agency, Dakota, in 1883, from the
United States Indian agent, Major McLaughlin, to whom the original was
submitted by Chief Big-Road when brought to that agency and required to give an
account of his followers. Chief Big-Road and his people belong to the Northern
Ogalala (accurately Oglala), and were lately hostile, having been associated
with Sitting-Bull in various depredations and hostilities against both settlers
and the United States authorities.”
“On five of the plates the chief has before him a decorated
pipe and pouch, the design of each being distinct from the others. On Plates
LIV and LV the upper left hand figure does not have a pipe, which leads to the
suspicion that, contrary to the information so far received, the whole of the
figures from Nos. 11 to 45 inclusive, on Plates LIII, LIV, and LV, constitute
one band under the same chief, viz., No. 11. In that case Nos. 23 and 3G would
appear to be leaders of subordinate divisions of that baud. Each of the five
chiefs has at least three transverse bands on the cheek, with differentiation
of the pattern. It will be noticed that each figure throughout the plates,
which carries before it a war club, is decorated with three red transverse
bauds, but that of No. 30, on Plate LIV, and No. 48 on Plate LVI, have the
three bands without a war club. The other male figures seem in some instances
to have each but a single red band; in others two bauds, red and blue, but the
drawing is so indistinct as to render this uncertain. It will be observed,
also, that in four instances (Nos. 14, 44, 4.5, and 72) women are depicted as
the surviving heads of families. Their figures do not have the transverse bands
on the cheek. Also that the five chiefs do not have the war club, their rank
being shown by pipe and pouch. Those men who are armed with war clubs, which
are held vertically before the person, indicate (in accordance with a similar
custom among other branches of the Dakota Nation, in which, however, the pipe
is held instead of the club that the man has at some time led war parties on
his own account.”
Size of sheet: 11 1/4” X 7 3/4”.
Condition: Clean Sheet See photos. Each page has embossed into it "Western Reserve Historical Society"
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