Winter Horse Raiding Episode c. 1910

"Winter Horse Raiding Episode," a drawing by Old Bull (c. 1845– ), depicts a wintertime raid on a herd of horses. The drawing, which is now housed at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, shows the attack from the perspective of the raiders, with the horse herd depicted in the bottom of the drawing running away from the attack. The attackers, who are on horseback, are depicted using colored pencils and have red dots on their bodies that indicate they have been hit. The simple but effective drawings by the artist, a member of the Kiowa tribe, are a unique and important historical record of Indigenous American life and culture.