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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 15, 2008 22:17:23 GMT -5
The portrait above was painted by David Humphreys Miller and is owned by Brent, who asked that I post it along with this information: This is "Bird Horse," cousin of White Swan, one of Custer's Scouts at the Little Bighorn. David painted this portrait of Bird Horse when interviewing him for his book Custers Fall: The Indian Side of the Story.
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Post by jinlian on Jun 14, 2009 4:55:28 GMT -5
I'm reposting Bird Horse's portrait by Miller (don't know why the image originally posted by Diane has disappeared) along with some information: According to the Crow census data, Bird Horse was born around 1875 - in 1900 he was married to Medicine Rock and had a 6 years old daughter named Pretty Lodge Poles. In 1930 he was reported as married to another woman, Takes Horses on Prairie and having no children living with them. Bird Horse appeared to be quite a prominent individual among the Apsaalooke. In Fred Voget's The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance Bird Horse is told to be one of Joseph Medicine Crow's paternal clansmen honored in the 1946 post-war "Outside Dance" (where he also acted as herald, announcing the war deeds of the people honored in that dance) - this would make him a member of the Ashhiraarioo (Newly-made Lodge). His cousin White Swan, scout for Reno at the LBH instead seems to have been an Ashkepkawiia (Bad War Deeds), as he called "mother" Curley (he himself a Bad War Deeds)'s own mother. Probably White Swan and Bird Horse were paternal kinsmen (the kinship is obvious, since there's quite a physical resemblance between the two men - see the topic on White Swan).
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Post by Diane Merkel on Jun 15, 2009 18:58:25 GMT -5
Sorry to cause you the extra trouble. We recently changed servers and some photo addresses needed to be updated. That's one I missed. If you notice any other missing images, please PM me.
Diane
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Post by jinlian on Jun 16, 2009 5:34:04 GMT -5
No trouble at all! I was just wondering, since the image wasn't uploaded on a free image hosting site. Thanks, Diane.
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