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Image of an ornate clock showing 2:05 with sculpted male figures sitting on each side of the clock face

Lakota “Winter Count” Artistry

Posted by: Mark Hartsell

The winter counts created by some Native American peoples chronicle centuries of their history in pictures: battles fought, treaties struck, buffalo hunts, meteor showers, droughts, famines, epidemics. The counts — painted mostly on buffalo hides until the species was hunted to nearextinction in the late 19th century — served as a way for tribes of …