Other Winter Counts

The Smithsonial Institution: National Anthropological Archives
The Smithsonian is currently hosting an on-line exhibition- Lakota Winter Counts. The exhibit also serves as a portal to the Smithsonian's extensive winter count collection.

Carnegie Winter Count - This contemporary winter count was created by Thomas Red Owl Haukaas, M D and spans the years 1868-1869 to 1992-1993. The site allows you to click on individual pictographs to see each enlaged with an accompanying interpretation.

Battieste Good Winter Count - This count is held by the manuscript division of the Library of Congress. It was created around 1907. The library also provides an enalrged version of this count.

Lone Dog's Winter Count - This count is housed in the State Historical Society of South Dakota and covers the years 1800 - 1871. This is one of three copies of the original count that had been destroyed. The museum privdes an enlarged version of this count and a text winter count key to each year represented on the count.

Winter Count Comparison - This site, part of The Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project, privides a short description of winter counts as well as a comparison of Swift Bear's and Big Missouri's Winter Counts for the years 1800 - 1808.

Yankonai or Yankton Sioux Winter Count: According to the original description by Dr. Franks (Ethnic Studies 112) at the University of San Diego: "Fort Totten Reservation, South Dakota. 1900-1910. Ink and pigment on cotton cloth. This winter count was produced on the Fort Totten Reservation in North Dakota. Read from the lower left and spiraling towards the center, the piece chronicles the years 1823 to 1911. A Dakota transliteration appears by each entry, indicating that a school teacher may have helped to produce the piece." Linea Sundstrom has provided an interpretation of this Winter Count which is in the Chandler-Pohrt collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts.