Sioux Indian Painting Portfolio, Part II--Introduction & Notes
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Sioux Indian Painting Portfolio, Part II--Introduction & NotesEntry/Object ID
575/13136BScope and Content
Sioux Indian Painting Portfolio, Part II--Introduction & Notes. 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, Amos Bad Heart Bufflalo as a Cowboy, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala SiouxLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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