- Object Name
- Maker
- Culture
- Place Made
- Title
Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer Massacre)
- Date
circa 1896
- Materials
watercolor on muslin, framed
- Dimensions
36 1/4 in x 71 1/2 in (92.1 cm x 181.6 cm)
- Date Collected
1898
- Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Irvin S. Cobb, in memory of her husband Irvin S. Cobb
- Object ID
1026.G.1
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- Institution
Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West
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- Category
Art and Artifacts
- Remarks
Painting by Kicking Bear, Battle of the Little Big Horn (Custer Massacre), circa 1896. Names of principal warriors written in by the Indian Agent at Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. Kicking Bear painted this personal narrative of battle in 1898 at request of the artist Frederic Remington. He was among the bands resisting American expansion in the Black Hills, and he fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
- Subject
- Publication
Lakota noon the Indian narrative of Custer’s defeat / Gregory F. Michno. front cover
For all to see the Little Bighorn Battle in Plains Indian art / by Sandra L. Brizée-Bowen. pages 158-160
Mitmischen in Geschichte und Politik Thomas Heber ... [et al.] pages 128 and 133
Montana Rita C. LaDoux page 34
Created equal a social and political history of the United States / Jacqueline Jones ... [et al.]. page 521
The great American West. pages 28-29
The West of the imagination William H. Goetzmann & William N. Goetzmann. page 222
The West of the imagination William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann. page 270
American heritage (SERIAL) page 32
Visions of the Big Sky painting and photographing the northern Rocky Mountain West / Dan Flores. page 84
Montana Magazine 2011 May / June. page 58
History of a free nation by Henry W. Bragdon, Samuel P. McCutchen, Donald A. Ritchie. page 514
Famous Indians a collection of short biographies. pages 30-31
Gall Lakota war chief / Robert W. Larson. page 142
Native North America Larry J. Zimmerman ; associate author, Brian Leigh Molyneaux. page 30
Literature and the language arts. Pine level : the American tradition. page 434
Famous Indians a collection of short biographies. pages 30-31
Sitting Bull by Susan Bivin Aller ; [illustration by Tim Parlin]. page 34
Defiant chiefs by the editors of Time-Life Books.
Hinterland warriors and military dress European empires and exotic uniforms / Thomas S. Abler. plate 40
Creating America a history of the United States. HT 37
Warrior art of the Little Big Horn volume II Kicking Bear / Colonel Rodney G. Thomase, United States Army, Retired. cover, page 1
The West a treasury of art and literature / edited by T.H. Watkins and Joan Watkins. page 49
G.A. Custer his life and times / Glenwood J. Swanson. page 219
We rode the wind recollections of Native American life / compiled and edited by Jane B. Katz. page 119
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