Battiste Good's Winter Count
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
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content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
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content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.4: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by artifact or Winter Count
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Battiste Good's Lakota name was Wapostangi ((Wa-Po-Ctan-Xi)), or Brown Hat. He was Sicangu Lakota (Brulé Sioux) born in 1821.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1880
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Published in "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1888-89, Washington DC 1893. See also The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian, C. Greene and R. Thornton, eds, 2005.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Bound drawing book containing 19 pages of drawings in graphite, ink, and watercolor on recto surfaces; one small sketch and one page of inscriptions on verso. Four leaves (probably blank) removed at back of volume. The drawings represent a count of the years from 1700 to 1879 with 12 additional pages representing longer periods of years from 900 to 1700.

Good produced this version of his winter count in a book provided by William H. Corbusier in 1880. Corbusier sent the winter count and associated interpretations to Col. Garrick Mallery of the Bureau of American Ethnology.