Black Elk Speaks: The Complete Edition

Appendix 3

appendix 3 The Drawings by Standing Bear, Black Elk’s Friend The Standing Bear drawings available today are courtesy of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection—Columbia, John G. Neihardt Papers, ca. 1858–1974. 1. Title Page of the First Edition 2. An Indian Way of Writing a Name: Black Elk’s Name Sign and Standing Bear’s Name Sign 3. The Battle of the Hundred Slain 4. The Two Spirits Coming for Black Elk 5. Black Elk Leaving to Visit the Six Grandfathers 6. Black Elk before the Six Grandfathers in the Flaming Rainbow Tepee 7. Killing the Drought 8. Black Elk under the Tree of Life 9. Black Elk at the Center of the Earth 10. A Bison Hunt 11. Custer’s Battle: Reno’s Retreat 12. Custer’s Battle: Custer’s Defeat 13. Custer’s Battle: Siege of Reno’s Troops 14. Black Elk Living in Fear of the Thunder Beings 15. In the Horse Dance: The Four Maidens 16. Horse Dance (Chief ): West 17. Horse Dance—Chief: North 18. Horse Dance (Chief ): East 19. Horse Dance (Chief ): South 20. The Dog Vision: Butterflies and Dragonflies 21. The Dog Vision: Killing the Dog 22. Black Elk’s Spirit Journey Home 23. The People in Despair 24. Going to the Other World 25. Black Elk in the Other World 26. The Wanekia under the Holy Tree 27. The Battle of Wounded Knee: Disarming Big Foot’s People 28. The Battle of Wounded Knee: The First Shots 29. Wounded Knee Battle: The Massacre 30. Black Elk Protected by the Sacred Bow 1. title page of the first edition This collage of Standing Bear’s drawings includes twenty small tepees bordering the central rectangle. Top left: Two crossed long-stemmed pipes with T-shaped catlinite bowls. Top middle: Man and woman outside a tepee that is painted with a rainbow above the doorway, a horse on the left side, facing the doorway, and a buffalo on the right side, also facing the doorway. A drying rack covered with meat is to the left of the tepee. Top right: A man in winter dress, wearing a furred robe, leggings, and moccasins, with a quiver of arrows slung over his right shoulder and bow held in his right hand like a cane, drags a dead antelope, evidently over the snow. Upper middle right: A shield, painted blue, depicts a golden eagle; above the eagle are five stars and below are three rainbow designs; eagle tail feathers are attached to the sides and bottom. Center middle right: A man, wearing only a breechcloth and a spotted eagle feather in his hair, offers a pipe, the stem pointing upward. Lower middle right: A sacred bow lance, decorated at the top and bottom with two spotted eagle feathers, is crossed with an arrow. Bottom right: A bear, standing on its hind legs; this may serve as Standing Bear’s signature. Bottom: A man on horseback, with a furred robe tied around his waist and two feathers in his hair, holds a bow as he gallops after two buffalo and a calf. Bottom left: A ceremonial wand from the hųká (adoption) ceremony. Three woodpecker heads are attached to the wand, together with pendants of red horsehair, a fan of eagle tail feathers, and, at the tip, a pendant of downy plumes. Middle left: A man wearing the regalia of a men’s society. His body is painted red and he holds an undecorated lance, suggesting that he may be an officer in the Sotká yuhá ‘bare lance owners’ society. He wears a headdress that appears to be of cut raven feathers, tipped with red plumes or horsehair, surrounding five eagle tail feathers, also tipped with red. Around his left shoulder and across his body he wears a society sash decorated with eagle tail feathers. In battle he will not flee from the enemy but will stake the sash to the ground and not retreat unless he is victorious or is released by one of his fellow society members. Top left: A curved coup stick, wrapped with fur and decorated with four clusters of eagle tail feathers. 2a. Black Elk’s Name Sign 2. an indian way of writing a name 2a. Black Elk’s Name Sign. The name is depicted by a drawing of an elk head, colored black, connected by a line to the mouth of a...