Battle of Little Big Horn, Opening of, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate II
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Battle of Little Big Horn, Opening of, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate IIEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-02Scope and Content
Battle of Little Big Horn, Opening of, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate II. Drawing. The inscription reads "These (Reno's command) are the ones from up the river. This is the way the Indians met them"--i.e. shot them from their horses. "Three men who met them first were Kicking Bear, Hard to Hit, and Bad Heart Buffalo" The latter was the father of the artist; e took a prominent part in the fight. 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, Reno's Command, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Custer, GeorgeLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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