Little Mountain fighting a Navaho

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Biographical / Historical: History of the Notebook: Acquired by Horace P. Jones, 1887. "Presented by General John L. Bullis to his friend, William Cassin - 1887" (note on inside cover page of notebook.) Notebook given to McNay Art Institute "by a descendant of General Bullis" (see letter of January 25, 1964, Burkhalter to Snodgrass. Now (1965) in Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas. Date: July 13, 1887, Fort Sill (--written opposite page 1 in notebook. "The Indian 'Little Mountain' shown in drawing Number 9 was the most celebrated of all the Kiowas of this period. His Indian name was T[D?]ohasen, which means 'high promontory', from which probably his English name of Little Mountain was derived by a loose translation. He died about the year 1868, and he was buried on Elk Creek. He took a prominent part in the Medicine Lodge Treaty. Little Mountain was the last important Kiowa chief and the last head chief the tribe ever had. He was very powerful and influential man, having had the entire tribe under his control and allegiance. Following his death, the tribe split into factions with a number of claimants to the chieftainship, each of whom had his own particular adherents, but there was no real unity among the Kiowa in a political sense." -- Information from General H. L. Scott in letter from M. W. Stirling to Mrs William Cassin, April 7, 1933.

Scope and Contents: Drawing (10" x 13 3/4") by Silver Horn (Hogoon). "Little Mountain one of the old time chiefs of the Kiawa in a personal encounter with a Navahoe - Navahoe killed" --information on page opposite drawing Number 9. Consists of 23 drawings marked with numbers 1 - 23, two drawings marked Number 24, Numbers 25 - 26, two drawings marked Number 27, Numbers 28 - 30. "The battle scenes are intended to represent events that have actually occurred 15 or 20 years ago; the Ki a was at that time being at war, not only with the whites but also with other tribes of Indians. The other pictures merely represent scenes that happened in their everyday life" -- note by Horace P. Jones, U. S. Interpreter, opposite page 1 in notebook. Each sketch is identified in Mr Jones' handwriting (--information from letter of January 25, 1964, from Mrs Burkhalter to Mrs Snodgrass).