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Details

Object Name: painting
Maker: White Swan
Culture: Apsáalooke (Crow/Absaroke)
Title: Pictographic War Record
Date: 1890-1904
Materials: Water color on muslin
Dimensions: 36 in x 105 in (91.4 cm x 266.7 cm)
Credit Line: The Elias Jackson Baldwin Memorial Collection, gift of Mrs. Anita Baldwin
Object ID: 609.G.185

Institution: Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West

Category: Art and Artifacts

Remarks

Muslin painting by White Swan (Crow), Pictographic War Record, depicting the Battle of Little Big Horn, 1890-1904. Signed in the lower right hand corner: WHITE SWAN. Pictured in the upper right corner is a wounded White Swan (one of Custer’s scouts) being pulled by a horse litter attached to a green horse. A cavalry guidon is fastened to the horse. The horse is being led by a soldier in uniform. To the left, White Swan is pictured riding a yellow horse twice. Left of that, falling Sioux Indians are riding a blue horse and a red horse. Top right of center is White Swan in his Lumpwood Society shirt. He is shooting a Sioux pipe carrier on foot, and he is carrying an Army guidon. In the upper left corner White Swan has taken off his Lumpwood Society shirt, he's on foot, he's been wounded a number of times, and he is killing a mounted Sioux Indian who is charging him. White Swan figures are depicted with a slightly bulging forehead. The way the ears are drawn on the horses, as if one was growing behind the other, is also characteristic of White Swan drawing style.

Subject

battles

Oceti Sakowin Oyate (People of the Seven Council Fires)

Nimi'ipuu (Nez Perce)

pictographs

Battle of the Little Bighorn

wars

Pictured