Facsimiles of Bloody Knife drawings
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS.2372
label: Album Information
content: MS 2372 BK-000
name: label: Creator
content: Bloody Knife, d. 1876
label: Collector
content: Norris, Philetus W. (Philetus Walter), 1821-1885
label: Collection Creator
content: Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
creator: label: Creator
content: Bloody Knife, d. 1876
label: Collector
content: Norris, Philetus W. (Philetus Walter), 1821-1885
culture: label: Culture
content: Sahnish (Arikara)
label: Culture
content: Indians of North America -- Great Plains
setName: label: See more items in
content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
label: See more items in
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 / Bloody Knife's War Robe
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Bloody Knife was an Arikara warrior who served as a scout for the US Army. He was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.

Philetus W. Norris was superintendent of Yellowstone National Park 1878-82. He was subsequently employed by the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology to assist with archeological field studies until his death in 1885.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 26 Sheets (ink, colored pencil, and watercolor on tracing cloth, 36 x 44 cm.-36 x 72 cm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1875
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sheets
label: Type
content: Ledger drawings
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Ledger drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Copy of scenes originally painted on a buffalo robe, now drawn in ink and watercolor on a series of 26 sheets of architect's linen.