Battle of Little Big Horn, End of the Battle, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIV
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Battle of Little Big Horn, End of the Battle, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIVEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-14Scope and Content
Battle of Little Big Horn, End of the Battle, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIV. Drawing. Of special interest are the bodies of the horses fallen as they ran and the fine uncolored frontal drawing of a horse in the upper left, probably an unfinished figure. The heads of the two horses near by indicate stationary mounts from which warriors have dismounted to end with arrows the lives of the wounded men and animals. Portfolio of Sioux Indian Painting, Part 2, The Art of Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, published by C. Szwedzicki, Nice, France, 1938. Limited Edition (400). No. 339. Introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Signed by C. Szwedzicki & V. Grespin. Amos Bad Heart Buffalo is considered the most notable northern Indian artist whose work is known. He is the son of an Oglala warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn, along with his brother, He Dog. They are often subjects of Amos's work, Amos was born in 1869 and died in 1913. The prints are enlargements of Amos's orginial drawings. Cover: "Going to the Warriors's Dance" 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.Collection
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Sioux Art, Oglala Sioux Art, Battle of Little Big Horn, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Custer, GeorgeLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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