PLATE 113 TWO LEGGINGS APSAROKE 1908 Photogravure

EDWARD S. CURTIS. Plate 113 Two Leggings - Apsaroke, 1908. 15.75x11.5" photogravure on 22x18" Japan Vellum paper. From Portfolio 4, The Apsaroke, or Crows & Hidatsa, of The North American Indian. Printed on print recto: Two Leggings - Apsaroke / From Copyright Photograph 1908 by E.S. Curtis / Photogravure John Andrew & Son

Curtis wrote about this image: "Born about 1848. River Crow; Not Mixed clan; Lumpwood organization. Having no great medicine derived from his own vision, he was adopted onto the Tobacco order by Bull Goes Hunting, who gave him his medicine of a fossil, or a stone, roughly shaped like a horse facing both ways. Two Leggings thus became a war-leader. In pursuing some Piegan who had killed a woman in the Apsaroke camp opposite Fort C. F. Smith on the Bighorn, he counted dakshe and captured a gun by the same act - a high honor. Led two parties against the Hunkpapa Sioux, each time taking scalps. Captured fifty horses from the Yanktonai at Fort Peck, and with Deaf Bull led a party that brought back eighty horses from the Teton Sioux. Portrait, folio plate 113."
Condition Report: Excellent. Minor wear.