Name/Title
Battle of Little Big Horn, Retreat of Reno's Command, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate VIEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-06Scope and Content
Battle of Little Big Horn, Retreat of Reno's Command, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate VI. Drawing.
TO VIEW PHOTO OF THIS PAINTING: click on "view available Multimedia link" on 575/1316B-1.
At the top of the picture is shown a warrior lancing a calvaryman. The warrio wears a stuffed hawk skin on his head. It was the characteristic headdress, worn as a charm, of the Oglala warrior Soldier Hawk.
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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ArtSearch Terms
Sioux Art, Oglala Sioux Art, Battle of Little Big Horn, Reno's Command, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Custer, GeorgeEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Oceti Sakowin
Native American
Notes
The word, Sioux, is referenced in this book. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.
The word, Lakota, is also referenced in this book. Lakota neglects the Nakota and Dakota peoples, so Lakota, Nakota, Dakota is used.Relationships
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Soldier Hawk