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THBSixth Plate Tintype of Chief Crooked Hand, a Pawnee Warrior
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LiveSep 8, 2017 - Sep 9, 2017
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- Lot Description
Sixth plate tintype, lightly hand colored blue and red, with the following inscribed on the back of the plate: "Crooked Hand Pawnee Brave, S.R. Nichols, Omaha, N.T." Reproduced from a daguerreotype. Housed in a sixth plate case with patriotic eagle imprint on the pad, and with a ca 1986 note attesting the image came from the estate of the Western illustrator Langdon Smith. Ca 1850-1860.
A fine tintype of an armed Pawnee warrior in remarkable dress.
Crooked Hand wears at least two feathers in his hair and wears a buckskin blanket and several shell and bone necklaces, while displaying an American military sword. An ambrotype showing a slightly different pose from the same sitting with Crooked Hand is housed at the Autry Museum of the American West and includes an inscription stating that the subject was a warrior of the Skidi Band (Pawnee) and died about 1874.
With two small chips to the marble base. One of the inkwells is missing its glass insert.Condition
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