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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