Painting : 2016.71.04

Title:

BLACK HEART, SIOUX

Artist:

Scheuerle, Joe (1873-1948)

Medium:

Watercolor/Gouache

Date:

1909

Source:

Nippert Collection of Joseph Scheuerle Portraits, donated by Alfred K., Jr. and Kathye H. Nippert

Object ID:

2016.71.04

Description:

Scheuerle wrote, "Black Heart was very active in the many battles against the military and other Indian tribes - he fought in Fetterman's defeat - Wagon Box fight and little Big Horn - of the Red Cloud Band, [painted] in a war bonnet of 'young eagle' feathers a war shirt with porcupine strips - The ornament is a 'heart shield' usually worn under the leather shirt, for good medicine and protection. Painted in the shadow of a mission church overlooking an Indian cemetery. Pine Ridge S.D. July. 1909"

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