Battle of Wounded Knee, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIX
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Battle of Wounded Knee, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIXEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-19Scope and Content
Battle of Wounded Knee, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XIX. Drawing. Pen and ink drawing representing the Battle of Wounded Knee in November, 1890. The fight was the outcome of an effort to disarm the "hostiles" under Big Foot. The Indians, vastly outnumbered, were surrounded by white soldiers. The fight, in which Indian women and children fell, was precipitated by a young Dakota discharging his rifle, a signal which precipitated the inexcusable slaughter. The drawing is a 2-page composition and is here enlarged approximately 1/6. 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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