Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
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Title:
Two Whistles - Apsaroke
Date:
1908
Size:
15 1/2 x 11 inches
Medium:
Vintage Platinum Print
This striking vintage photograph shows Two Whistles, of the Apsaroke tribe, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, face painted, wearing medicine hawk headdress, buckskin shirt, and shell necklaces. This example is rich and open. The tones and contrast are even and beautiful.
TWO WHISTLES "Ishichoshupsh"-Apsaroke-Portrait.
Born 1856. Mountain Crow of the Not Mixed clan and Lumpwood organization. Never achieved a recognized coup, but at the age of eighteen he led a party consisting, beside himself, of two others which captured a hundred horses from the Sioux. Participated in four severe battles against Arapaho and Sioux, one being the engagement at the mouth of Pryor creek. First fasted at the age of thirty-five. The first night he saw the war-bonnet of the Sioux; the next day he cut the skin and flesh of his arms in representation of eight hoof-prints; and that night the moon came to him and said. At Iyehopish are buffalo and horses mixed; you will never be poor. In the outbreak caused by the medicine-man Wraps Up His Tail, at Crow agency in 1877, Two Whistles was shot in the arm and breast, necessitating the amputation of the arm above the elbow. His medicine of hawk was purchased with the horse from a Sioux.
TWO WHISTLES "Ishichoshupsh"-Apsaroke-Portrait.
Born 1856. Mountain Crow of the Not Mixed clan and Lumpwood organization. Never achieved a recognized coup, but at the age of eighteen he led a party consisting, beside himself, of two others which captured a hundred horses from the Sioux. Participated in four severe battles against Arapaho and Sioux, one being the engagement at the mouth of Pryor creek. First fasted at the age of thirty-five. The first night he saw the war-bonnet of the Sioux; the next day he cut the skin and flesh of his arms in representation of eight hoof-prints; and that night the moon came to him and said. At Iyehopish are buffalo and horses mixed; you will never be poor. In the outbreak caused by the medicine-man Wraps Up His Tail, at Crow agency in 1877, Two Whistles was shot in the arm and breast, necessitating the amputation of the arm above the elbow. His medicine of hawk was purchased with the horse from a Sioux.