Full Description
Originally published in 1967, this remarkable pictographic history consists of more than four hundred drawings and script notations by Amos Bad Heart Bull, an Oglala Lakota man from the Pine Ridge Reservation, made between 1890 and the time of his death in 1913. The text, resulting from nearly a decade of research by Helen H. Blish and originally presented as a three-volume report to the Carnegie Institution, provides ethnological and historical background and interpretation of the content.
This 50th anniversary edition provides a fresh perspective on Bad Heart Bull's drawings through digital scans of the original photographic plates created when Blish was doing her research. Lost for nearly half a century-and unavailable when the 1967 edition was being assembled-the recently discovered plates are now housed at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives. Readers of the volume will encounter new introductions by Emily Levine and Candace S. Greene, crisp images and notations, and additional material that previously appeared only in a limited number of copies of the original edition.
Contents
Publisher's Preface for the new edition
A Short History of Amos Bad Heart Bull and Helen Blish, by Emily Levine
Significance of the Ledger Drawings, by Candace Greene
Publisher's Preface
List of Color Plates
List of Illustrations
Introduction by Mari Sandoz
Foreword by Helen H. Blish
Dedication
PART ONE
Chapter I The Artist and His Work
Chapter II Dakota Histories and Historical Art
Chapter III The Bad Heart Bull Manuscript as History
Chapter IV Bad Heart Bull as an Artist
Chapter V Dakotan Art and Thought
PART TWO
Chapter VI Introduction to the Drawings
Chapter VII The Drawings
Bibliography
Appendix: Descriptive Listing of the Drawings
A Note on the Editing
The Artist and The Author
Note on Images
Index
