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quarters or full, but horse figures are shaded carefully in an attempt 

 to depict rounding of the body. 



Sitting Bull's "medicine," a bird variously interpreted as a falcon 

 or an eagle, appears on occasion in all the extant pictographic collec- 

 tions. It is found either on his war shield or above his head. His per- 

 sonal glyph, the seated bull, though present in the Kimball records, is 

 missing in the Ouimby collection. The Smith pictographs do not carry 

 his glyph, but each is signed. While a fugitive in Canada, Sitting Bull 

 was taught to write his name by Gus Hedderich, who operated a trad- 

 ing post at Woody Mountain. A specimen of his handwriting is 

 also found in the Niles ^luseum's Sitting Bull exhibit. In a bold and 

 sure hand he wrote "Sitting Bull" on stationery of the "Randall 

 House," where "persons visiting the post will find comfortable Quar- 

 ters and a good table" as well as a "full view of drills and parades." 

 One can be sure that a view of the Indians camped in and around the 

 fort was included at no extra charge. 



