"Great medicine man who controls the thunder and lightning...."

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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.

Scope and Contents: Drawing (10" x 13 3/4") by Silver Horn (Hogoon). "Great medicine man who controls the thunder and lightning, experiments a little on a white man's house; you can tell the medicine man from the lightning by his having a red pipe in his hand" 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).