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Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 11, 2009 21:35:09 GMT -5
From Antiques and the Arts Online: An Indian rifle owned by White Man Runs Him, the scout for General George A. Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, dominated the action at Kaminski Auctions, where it sold for $21,850. White Man Runs Him decorated the gun with thunderbird symbols, and, according to notarized documents accompanying the lot, he saw it as sacred and used it for tribal ceremonies.
White Man Runs Him, also known as White Buffalo That Turns Around, kept accounts of the battle, and of Custer, which portrayed the general as less than heroic. White Man Runs Him's gun had remained in his Montana family until July 2004, when his granddaughter Winona Yellowtail sold it. The gun sold at Kaminski to a Connecticut collector who was active throughout the sale. Source: antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/AuctionWatch/2009-09-08__10-45-13.html
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Post by jeroen on Aug 22, 2010 2:45:19 GMT -5
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Post by tkavanagh on Sept 2, 2010 14:00:12 GMT -5
Original negative at W.H. Mathers museum, Indiana University
tk former curator of collections.
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Post by grahamew on Apr 27, 2011 9:06:45 GMT -5
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Post by jeroen on Jun 17, 2011 8:20:43 GMT -5
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