Two Whistles (Mountain Crow)
Charcoal on Paper
13 x 10
Available
Tribe: Mountain Crow of the Not Mixed clan & Lumpwood society
1856 - June 22, 1929, Montana
At age eighteen, Two Whistles led a small party of men and captured one hundred horses from the Sioux. He participated in battles with the Arapaho and Sioux, and in 1887 was shot in the arm and chest --his arm subsequently amputated above the elbow. During his first fast at age 35, he experienced a spiritual vision which revealed the location of where buffalo and horses could be found. Here at age 52, Two Whistles wears face paint, buckskin shirt, shell necklaces, and a medicine hawk headdress which was purchased for the price of one Sioux horse. Circa, 1908.
