Name/Title
Battle of Little Big Horn, by Kills Two, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-10Scope and Content
Battle of Little Big Horn, by Kills Two, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate X, Symbolic portrayal of the conflict between the Indians and the whites as represented by their two most famous leaders. General Custer is shown with the white man's weapon, the saber, while the Indian hero, Crazy Horse (Tasinke Witko) is hown with a primitive type of the stone club of his race. It is unlikely that the artist (born in 1869) can ever have seen Custer or that he could have remembered Crazy Horse who died while the artist was still an infant. Painting on canvas by Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Oglala Sioux. (Collection of H.B. Alexander)
Portfolio of Sioux Indian Painting, Paintings of the Sioux and Other Tribes of the Great Plains, Part I, published by C. Szwedzicki, Nice, France, 1938. Limited Edition. No. 361. Introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Part. 1 contains Plates I-XXV. Painters of Part 1 are Sioux, Mandan, Shoshone, and Kiowa. On cover of Portfolio--Sioux Warriors on horseback, by Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Oglala Sioux.
Part. 2 contains an addition 25 Plates I-XXV different than Part 1.Collection
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Oglala Sioux Art, Battle of Little Bighorn, Custer, George, Crazy Horse, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Oceti SakowinEthnography
Notes
The word, Sioux, is referenced. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.Relationships
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George CusterPerson or Organization
Crazy HorsePerson or Organization
Kills Two
