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Káma-Kapúska! Making Marks in Indian Country, 1833–34

Beróck-Itaïnú note 1

Journal entry for February 8, 1834, in The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, vol. 3, ed. Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press with the Joslyn Art Museum, 2008–12), 252–53. Specific entries will henceforth be given as: Date (JAM volume:page).

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Beróck-Itaïnú (Buffalo Bull’s Neck) served as a soldat (soldier) at Fort Clark. He usually visited the Fort Clark studio with his fellow warrior and soldat, Dipäuch. The two older men policed behavior within the fort, and on at least one buffalo hunt Beróck-Itaïnú served as scout, a position for which one earned honor marks.‍[1] On his first visit to the studio, however, he came alone and in mourning clothes and clay, as one of his children had just died from whooping cough, an epidemic in the villages over the winter of 1833.‍[2] Several of Beróck-Itaïnú’s warrior brothers also visited the Europeans’ quarters over the course of the winter.

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