Plains pictographic winter count with numbered years – Historic Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Plains pictographic winter count with numbered years in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A conversation-starting piece for home, office, or as a meaningful gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Plains pictographic winter count with numbered years
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A winter count like this one is a record kept on hide or muslin, with each year marked by a single pictograph drawn for the most memorable event of that season. Keepers of these calendars, usually men within Plains nations, used them to fix a community's history in a form that could be read aloud and passed down from one generation to the next. Numbered years in the margins help anchor the drawn events to a sequence, which makes the object useful to researchers tracing tribal chronologies across the nineteenth century. Viewers should look closely at the small figures, since each one condenses a whole winter's news into a single image.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 609 px |
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| Reference | LAK-002 WinterCount2 |
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