A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve: Studia Historiae Literarum et Artium, 1. (Szeged, 1997)

Nagy Imre: „The Black Came over the Sun...” Lame Bull’s spiritual oeuvre

White Shield camped with Hevhaitaniu (little west of south as Harvey remembers.) Shield: Roman Nose and Stone each saw him having a shield on different trips, but can't describe it. Stone says it came from Gentle Horse, a noted priest, died recently, = William Little Chiefs father-in-law. [In the hands of the „beasts":] „Outer hand" - Hitánihau = alien man, i.e., foreign enemy, black = victory red - blood figures both = men red spot [on chest] = heart red eye line = Does not Know Meaning. White Shield's shield Army officer of Fort Reno about 1874 or 75 bought his shield and war shirt trimmed with scalps. He had also a Himatanohis lance and a war bonnet. George Bent made the deal - Harvey White Shield (Mooney notes, NAA 2538, Box 1: White Shield). We find an even more detailed description of Lame Bull's original vision in Mooney's miscellaneous Cheyenne files, which also deserves to be quoted in its entirety: Harvey Tipi-February 6, 1906. SEE: White Shield, No. 37. No special name unless „Yellow tipi." Originally painted by Lonewolf and [his] wife. Dreamed by Lame Bull = Hotoá-viái, a medicine man. In the Black Hills = Moqtái (black) о ho náif (rock), beyond the Beaver river = Hómá iyűhi is the mountain called Nóawós = „Sacrifice (giving) hill or mound." There is a natural hole about two and a half feet diameter - hands could not clasp it - perpendicular in the grassy eastern edge of the hill. Constant great wind [comes] from it [with] a soft noise of wind. Drop pebbles into it, and after some time hear them fall into water, but could not see water when look into it. Lame Bull [was] thaught [by] spirits there. Went and fasted there at the hole for four nights. (1) Began in the morning - [he was] there all night, and on [the] next, first morning, while sitting, facing east, as sun about to rise, he saw this tipi rise up, instead of the sun. That continued [to] rise until into the air, then vanished (soon i.e. about 8 or 9 AM.). [He] spent the rest of the day at the same place „resting." Just before sunset [he] turned and watched the setting sun, and it turned into the same tipi again, but this time saw panther on each side [of the] door, which he had not seen in [the] morning. Tipi in west facing east. That night while sleeping he woke up from time to time, and looked toward the mouth of the hole, and he saw sparks of fire come out, like lightning flashes. (2) Next morning in place [he is] facing east before sunrise. As sun rose this time could not see tipi - sun came up in natural way, but on each side [of the] rising sun was a „beast" in human form with horns. As sun rose higher after first vi63