Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
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Yellow Hawk - Yanktonai
Date:
1908
Size:
Volume, 12.5 x 9.5 inches
Medium:
Vintage Photogravure
Born in 1854 near Fort Berthold, North Dakota. When he was sixteen he accompanied a war-party, but achieved nothing. While in an engagement with the Apsaroke near Musselshell river, Montana, he rushed into the thick of the fight and brought out his brother's dead body. Somewhat older, he was leading a war-party when a single Indian was seen. Wishing to fight him single-handedly, Yellow Hawk commanded his warriors to wait; he then charged the stranger, killing him with his war club. On another expedition he killed one enemy and counted a first coup. He captured a tethered horse from the Atsina near Fort Belknap, and another from the Cree. Yellow Hawk fasted many times and always had the same vision- that an old man in the clouds with his body painted blue and his legs read. This old man told him he would never be wounded, but would gain many honors and live to great age. Yellow Hawk married at twenty-three.
Provenance:
Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Library
Provenance:
Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson & Burnham Library