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Object Name

painting

Maker

Kicking Bear

Culture

Oglala Lakota (Sioux)

Place Made

Pine Ridge Agency

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

Institution

Southwest Museum of the American Indian Collection, Autry Museum of the American West

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

Rain-in-the-Face

George Armstrong Custer

Sitting Bull

tipis

horses

soldiers

Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West

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

Rubbing out Long Hair = Pehin Hanska kasota : the American Indian story of the Little Big Horn in art and word / by Rodney G. Thomas. page 78

Montana Magazine 2011 May / June. page 58

”Why won’t you just tell us the answer?” teaching historical thinking in grades 7-12 / Bruce A. Lesh ; foreword by Edward L. Ayres. page 122

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

Different travellers, different eyes artists’ narratives of the American West, 1820-1920 / edited by Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, and James H. Maguire. page 146

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

Seriously amazing objects [videorecording (DVD)] : episode 102 - melting pot.

Carlos Montezuma [videorecording (DVD)] : changing is not vanishing.

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