Battle of Little Big Horn - Interactive Tapestry

In much the same line of the famous Bayeux Tapestry:



"Decades after the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stephen Standing Bear, who participated in the tumultuous engagement, recalled its chaos: “I could see Indians charging all around me. Then I could see the soldiers and Indians all mixed up and there were so many guns going off that I couldn’t hear them.” He also illustrated the battlefield as he saw it in large-scale muslin pictographs, with the largest surviving example currently on view in First Person: Remembering Little Bighorn at the Philbrook Museum of Art’s downtown branch in Tulsa, Oklahoma"

On viewing the interactive tapestry, what struck me is that the Indians had societies within the tribes (Kit Fox Society, Brave Heart Society, Bare Lance Warriors)




http://firstperson.philbrook.org/#

More about the tapestry and the battle at:

http://hyperallergic.com/320716/the-brutality-of-little-bighorn-as-seen-by-someone-who-was-there/