Lakota winter count pictograph with bison and warriors – Vintage Print
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A window into the past: Lakota winter count pictograph with bison and warriors, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Lakota winter count pictograph with bison and warriors
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A Lakota winter count is a year-by-year record painted on hide or cloth, with each year marked by a single pictograph for the most memorable event of the season. Keepers of these records, often called winter count keepers, used them to fix tribal history in memory, and the bison and warrior figures shown here point to the hunt and to the raids and battles that shaped those years. Pictographs like these were read aloud as a kind of oral chronicle, so each symbol carried a story the keeper would recount to listeners. Notice how the simple, flat figures pack a whole season of community life into a single image.
| Original scan | 1,024 × 694 px |
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| Reference | LAK-001 WinterCount1 |
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