FIG. 5 (below): Alexander M. Gardner, Red Leaf (Wahpe Luta), Washington, DC, 1872. Albumen print. 15.3 x 10.2 cm (image). British Museum, #Am,B29.2. © The Trustees of the British Museum. 130 FIG. 6 (right): Glyph for the year 1833–34—The Stars Fell. The coordinating event for all winter counts is the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of November 12, 1833, which was seen across the entire Northern Hemisphere. Beginning around midnight on the Northern Plains, an estimated 10,000 meteors an hour rained down from the heavens until dawn obscured the spectacle. Many of the meteors were bolides, large enough to create sonic booms, some exploding and showering down debris. Most of the millions of witnesses, of whatever race, were certain they were witnessing the end of the world (fi g. 7). In the glyph, the circle represents the horizon, as one looks up into a sky fi lled with falling stars. OBJECT history FIG. 7: Unidentifi ed artist, The Leonid Meteor Storm as Seen over North America on the Night of November 12–13, 1833. Published in Edmund Weiß, Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt, Esslingen bei Stuttgart: J. F. Schreiber, 1888.
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