MS 5967 David McClusky pictographic drawing of 1864 battle at Heart River
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 5967

NAA INV 08594000
label: Variant Title
content: Drawing of Battle between General Sully's company of soldiers and Winnebago scouts, and the Sioux (Dakota), at "Hard River" (Heart River?)
name: label: Creator
content: McKlusky, David
label: Names
content: Sully, Alfred, 1821-1879
place: label: Place
content: North Dakota
label: Place
content: North America
creator: label: Creator
content: McKlusky, David
culture: label: Culture
content: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
label: Culture
content: Dakota (Eastern Sioux)
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: David McClusky (also known as David McKlusky, Standing Buffalo and Che-nah-zhi-gah) was Ho-Chunk leader and a private in Stufft's Independent Company Indian Scouts.  Commanded by Captain Christian Stufft, the company was part of Brigadier General Alfred Sully's 1864 Expedition against the Sioux.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Drawings (visual works) (pencil and ink on linen-backed paper, laminated, 23 x 17.5 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1869
container: label: Container
content: Folder 5967
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: The provenance of the drawing is unknown; there is no accession information available.  It was found in the USNM collections and transferred from the object collections of the Department of Anthropology to the National Anthropological Archives.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS5967
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Graphic Materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Drawings
label: Type
content: Pictographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of a pictographic drawing depicting a conflict between the forces of General Sully, including Winnebago scouts and the Dakota Sioux. The drawing is inscribed "Winnebago Sout white hill Fight three over soldar--one Campain" (Winnebago Scout, White Hill Fight. 83 soldiers--1 company) and signed David McKlusky and David M.  At the lower right, in different handwriting, is a further explanation of the picture.

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