MS 2367-a Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 2367-a

OPPS NEG 46999 A-K

OPPS NEG 47000 A-L

OPPS NEG 47001 A-K

OPPS NEG 72-3915 CN-72-3955 CN
label: Publication Note
content: Map and Numbers 5, 8, 12, 16, 27 (now missing), 30, 32, 39, and 41 were published in:

Mallery, Garrick. "Picture Writing of the American Indians," Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology 10. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1893. Plates 39-48.
name: label: Artist
content: Red Horse
label: Collector
content: McChesney, Charles E.
place: label: Place
content: Montana
label: Place
content: North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Little Big Horn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
creator: label: Artist
content: Red Horse
label: Collector
content: McChesney, Charles E.
culture: label: Culture
content: Minneconjou Lakota (Minniconjou Sioux)
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content: MS 2367-a Red Horse pictographic account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
bioghist: label: Biographical Note
content: Red Horse was a chief of the Miniconjou division of the Lakota.  He fought in the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, and in 1881 he gave one of the few detailed accountings of the event.
label: Biographical Note
content: Dr. Charles E. McChesney was an Army physician based at Fort Bennet, Dakota Territory in 1881.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 42 Drawings (visual works) (graphite, colored pencil, and ink; laminated, 24 x 36.25 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1881
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: They drawings were made at the Cheyenne River Agency in 1881 and subsequently deposited in the Bureau of [American] Ethnology by Charles E. McChesney. Correspondence regarding their production is located in the Records of the Bureau of American Ethnology Correspondence series.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2367A
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Drawings (visual works)
label: Type
content: Works of art
label: Type
content: Ledger drawings
label: Type
content: Pictographs
label: Type
content: Maps
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Works of art
label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
label: Genre/Form
content: Pictographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Maps
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection consists of forty-two (42) drawings made by Red Horse at the request of Dr. Charles E. McChesney.  The drawings served as illustrations to accompany Red Horse's account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, which McChesney recorded in support of Garrick Mallery's study of Plains sign language. The drawings are numbered 0-41 (Number 27 is now missing).  The collection also includes a one-page note about the drawings by McChesney and a newspaper article about the collection.

Please note that the contents of the collection and the language and terminology used reflect the context and culture of the time of its creation. As an historical document, its contents may be at odds with contemporary views and terminology and considered offensive today. The information within this collection does not reflect the views of the Smithsonian Institution or National Anthropological Archives, but is available in its original form to facilitate research.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: The National Anthropological Archives also holds:

MS 2367-b Red Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Montana, June 25, 1876, in Gesture-Signs, to illustrate the Syntax of the Sign-Language of the North American Indians.