Káma-Kapúska! Making Marks in Indian Country, 1833–34Main MenuScholarly ArticleWied-Neuwied’s Journal PagesA Sample ExhibitionNumak'aki Persons and ThemesProject NarrativeSourcesKristine K. Ronan866e3f0d78e6d37c93d7b8ddc8a882dd7a5e8029
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.