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Title: General Custer confronts Crazy Horse
Creator: Kills Two, Sam, 1869-1927
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1920-1930
Publication Information: Ella Strong Denison Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description: This painting, done in ledger style, depicts a battle between Crazy Horse and General George Custer. Inscribed on recto: General Custer --- Crazy Horse. Inscribed on verso: General Custer Confronts Crazy Horse. The white man with saber, the Indian with stone club. Drawn by Kills Two.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: pap00018.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pap/id/4
Language: English
Subject: Oglala Lakota
Crazy Horse, ca. 1842-1877
Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
Horses in art
Indians of North America-Great Plains
Indians-Warfare
Oglala Indians
Plains men
Weapons
Time Period: 20th century
Place: Great Plains
Source: Watercolor and ink on canvas, 16 x 12 inches; Hartley Burr Alexander Collection of American Indian Artwork, box 2, folder 8
Relation: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/pap

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