I. THE KIMBALL PICTOGRAPHIC RECORD 



When Sitting Bull recounted his honors at the dance following 

 the Sioux victory over the Crow in 1870, Frank Grouard, who was 

 present, states that at this time Sitting Bull was entitled to 63 coups." 

 About this same time Sitting Bull made his pictographic record after 

 the usual manner of the Plains Indians, representing the feats which 

 entitled him to special credit among the Indians. This set of drawings 

 he gave to his adopted brother. Jumping Bull, who placed with them 

 a pictographic record of his own. While these drawings were in the 

 possession of Jumping Bull, Four Horns copied 55 of them, includ- 

 ing 40 from the record of Sitting Bull and the remainder from that 

 of Jumping Bull. In some manner, not yet explained, these copies 

 fell into the hands of another Indian who brought them to Fort 

 Buford, where they eventually came into the possession of Assistant 

 Surgeon James Kimball in August 1870. The fate of the original 

 drawings from which this set was made is not known, although 

 Sitting Bull stated that they were still in the possession of Jumping 

 Bull as late as 1881. According to Col. H. M. Morrow, his father, 

 also Col. H. M. Morrow, who was with Dr. Kimball, procured an 

 identical set at the same time. These copies were both drawn on 

 roster sheets of the Thirty-first United States Infantry. The copy 

 retained by the Morrow family was destroyed in San Francisco in 

 the great fire of 1906. The copy obtained by Dr. Kimball was de- 

 posited by him, together with explanations of the pictures obtained 

 at the time from other Indians, with the Medical Director's Office, 

 Department of Dakota, on March 14, 1871. The same year they 

 were transferred to the Army Medical Museum in Washington, 

 D. C. On May 15, 1915, Dr. D. S. Lamb of the Army Medical 

 Museum transferred them to the archives of the Bureau of American 

 Ethnology, where they are at the present time. 



From time to time this pictographic record has attracted consider- 

 able attention, but it has been reproduced only in part, and the 

 supporting documents concerning it have never before been published. 



Although the name of Sitting Bull had already become well known 

 to the whites, he did not become a figure of outstanding national 

 interest until after the annihilation of General Custer and the Seventh 

 Cavalry, June 25, 1876, in which battle Sitting Bull participated. 



''De Barthe, 1894, p. 105. 



