Battle of Little Big Horn, Gen. Custer's Last Moments, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XVII
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Battle of Little Big Horn, Gen. Custer's Last Moments, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XVIIEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-17Scope and Content
Battle of Little Big Horn, Gen. Custer's Last Moments, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XVII. Drawing. A colored drawing of the last moments of the encounter with General Custer's troop, on the same scale as Plate XVI. 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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