MALLERY.] BATTISTE GOOD’S INTRODUCTION. 289 
inal. Pls. XXI, XX1, and xx1iI are colored copies of those furnished 
by Battiste Good, reduced, however, in size. 
Fig. 256 illustrates Battiste Good’s introduction. He is supposed to 
be narrating his own experience as follows: ‘In the year 1856, I went 
to the Black Hills and cried, and eried, and cried, and suddenly I saw 
a bird above me, which said: ‘Stop erying; I am a woman, but I will 
tell you something: My Great-Father, Father God, who made this 
place, gave it to me for a home and told me to watch over it.” He put 
FiG, 256.—Battiste Good’s Revelation. 
a blue sky over my head and gave me a blue flag to have with this 
beautiful green country. [Battiste has made the hill country, as well 
as the curve for sky and the flag, blue in his copy.} My Great-Father, 
Father God (or The Great-Father, God my Father) grew, and his flesh 
was part earth and part stone and part metal and part wood and part 
water; he took from them all and placed them here for me, and told 
me to watch over them. I am the Eagle-Woman who tell you this. 
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