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Description: Pictures from two Lakota winter counts, 1843-1844. A Sacred Arrow of the Cheyennes was returned by the Lakotas. The Pawnee had captured all four arrows years before. The Lakotas found one during an attack on a Pawnee village in 1843. The zigzag lines from or around the arrow designate it is a sacred object
Title: Lakota winter counts showing the Sacred Arrow of the Cheyennes returned in 1843
Credit: Smithsonian Institution. 4th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1882-'83.. Washington, G.P.O., 1886
Author: Unknown authorUnknown author
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License: Public domain
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