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- Museum number:
- 13-32
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21130000032
- Alternate number:
- 138 (original number) and 17-32 (museum number (recataloged to))
- Accession number:
- Acc.37
- Object count:
- 1
- Description:
- Oil painting of Little-Wolf, nephew of Chief Little-Wolf.
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Lame Deer, Montana
- Production place:
- Lame Deer, Montana
- Culture or time period:
- Cheyenne
- Maker or artist:
- Joseph Henry Sharp
- Collector:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Placeholder record (no associated object)
- Accession date:
- January 2, 1902
- Department:
- Still and motion photography
- Comment:
- Cheyenne. Painted in Lame Deer, Montana. Nephew of Chief Little Wolf. Chief Little Wolf, the head chief-priest of the Council of Forty-Four, the traditional ruling body of the Cheyenne. Known as a great general and fighter, he was second in command at the battle of Little Bighorn. In 1878 he led the Cheyenne from Oklahoma, where they had been sent after their surrender, back to their hunting lands in the north. Because he killed a man, he resigned his role as head chief and went into self-imposed exile in 1880. Artist's price $200. White spots in lower right corner, canvas loose, painted surface touches glass. One in a series from life in oil by J. H. Sharp, mainly Crow, Cheyenne, Blackfoot, Sioux, and Rio Grande Pueblo portraits.