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

sion (i.e. about 11 AM) these disappeared. [During the] Sunset that evening the sun changed into a crescent moon in black sky, and the Pleiades appeared above it, and the Morning Star below. „The black came over the sun, and that changed it to a moon." Vision continued until set as sun set. That night he saw flashes of light at hole as before. Pleiades = Manóotoqchio = „Group of Stars" ( hotoqch = star). Morning Star = Wóhi, i.e. Wóqgóhi = Rabbit (generic), but usually used to indicate a large rabbit, as a jackrabbit. (3) Next morning as watched for sunrise he saw a tipi come up, and feathers, and [unreadable], and stars, etc.. At second sunset, [he] saw whole tipi, and moon, stars, and black. That evening at sunset - like flood of sunset: yellow light all over = yellow ground of the tipi. Saw tipi thus. Night [he] saw sparks and slept. Next morning [he] saw no vision. Sun came up in the natural way, and he went home. [The] Camp [was] near there. Lame Bull, Lone Wolf, and White Shield were all cousins, and about the same age. Lame Bull was a young, and unmarried man [at that time]. He died during the winter of 1902. He was a Northern Cheyenne. Tipi first painted and gave to Harvey's father (Lame Bull's cousin) in the winter of 1882-83 (fall of 1882) while Harvey away at Carlisle. He never saw it, but they sent him a photograph (lost in river at Salt Creek). Painted by Lame Bull, Lone Wolf, White Shield, and Lone Wolfs wife, called Iqsitáhi („Broken Leg Tendon"), plus two other young men: five in all [sic]. Lone Wolf's wife is still alive. White Shield = Wóqpohivuts, then he was called Bull's Beard = HotoáMeháts. Supervised by other wife of White Shield. - Canvas. Issued by Agent Miles. Cut out by his wife, sewed, etc., by the women of the camp. „Paint" was free gift. Feast mostly paid by the whites for all camping inside the tipi. Never renewed. White Shield died [during the] same winter, and this tipi was wrapped about his corpse in grave. 1883 January. Probably next to last in tribe, not some. Another Cheyenne, Burnt All Over had a painted tipi, perhaps later. Also one painted at Cantonment about 1889, just before the last treaty = Medicine Crazy - died, (his widow still alive, here) = last. Tabus - Lone Wolf knows only one: must not hit it on outside with stick, or stone, and always warned not play near it. White Shield and his wives, and Lame Bull all dead, and he does not knows (Mooney notes, NAA 2213). Now we may conclude the biographical data, and other ethnographical information on Lame Bull. All new data, unless otherwise noted, is from the unpublished Cheyenne field notes of James Mooney. Lame Bull died during the winter of 1901-1902, nearly sixty years old. This places the time of his birth about 1841. Their fathers were brothers, and very probably they were So 'taeo 'o~ by descent, since Mooney informs us that Lone Wolfs father was a So'tae'e, and we also know from Mooney's notes, that White Shield was the second cousin of the famous Black Kettle and his younger brother, Gentle Horse, both So'taeo'o by birth. This 64