TWO LEGGINGS' LODGE 1908 Copper Plate

EDWARD S. CURTIS. Two Leggings' Lodge - Apsaroke, 1905. 7.3x5.3" image on 8x6.3" copper plate. Plate date 1909. From Volume 4, The Apsaroke, or Crows & Hidatsa, of The North American Indian. Engraved on plate recto: Two Leggings' Lodge - Apsaroke / From Copyright Photograph 1905 by E.S. Curtis.

Curtis wrote about Two Leggings: "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: Very Good. Minor scratches, tarnish, dents, abrasions, small dark spots, and ink residue throughout plate surface.