14 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 9/ 



No. 13 



"In a warm engagement with the whites, as shown by the bullets 

 flying about, Sitting Bull shoots an arrow through the body of a 

 soldier who turns and fires wounding Sitting Bull in the hip." — 

 Kimball. 



"1864. Near White Butte, on the Little Missouri River. Under 

 heavy fire, Sitting Bull charges a white soldier. Though transfixed 

 by an arrow from behind, and bleeding copiously from mouth and 

 wounds, the brave soldier turns and shoots Sitting Bull through the 

 buttocks, causing great loss of blood." " — Vestal. 



'This episode is described in detail by Vestal. See Vestal, 1932, p. 64. 



No. 14 



"Sitting Bull counts 'coup' on a white man by striking him with 

 his bow. Sitting Bull wears a jacket and bandanna handkerchief 

 taken from some of his victims." — Kimball. 



"1867-68 (winter). On the Montana Trail. Sitting Bull counts 

 coup on a white man. In this affair Sitting Bull counted nine coups. 

 This picture is followed by eight others showing the other coups 

 struck. But as the drawings differ only in the details of the dress 

 and persons of the white men, they have not been given here. Several 

 of the white men were represented as having hair on their bodies — • 

 a thing considered loathsome by the Sioux." — Vestal. 



