A Pictographic History Of The Oglala Sioux.

HELEN H. BLISH

Publication: University of Nebraska Press, 1967, Lincoln

First edition. Quarto. Cloth, xxii, 530 pp. Introduction by Mari Sandoz. This important study reproduces the pictographic history recorded by Amos Bad Heart Bull. A total of 415 pictographs are presented here, many in color. Over 150 depict fights between the Sioux and the Crow Indians, and 60 record the famous Battle of the Little Big Horn, 18 in full color. "...the epitome of Oglala Sioux picture histories...without doubt the Amos Bad Heart Bull picture history is the most comprehensive, the finest statement as art and as report of the North American Indian so far discovered anywhere"--Mari Sandoz. Near fine, bright copy housed in the original publisher's slipcase.

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