Lot 183
Unidentified Oglala Sioux Makers
Lot 183 Details
Unidentified Oglala Sioux Makers
COLLECTION REPUTED TO HAVE BELONGED TO SUB CHIEF BLACK EAGLE OF THE PINE RIDGE RESERVATION, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
accompanied by H.M. Worcester Indian Artifacts bills of sale, and sales brochure; also accompanied by C. Frank Turner's hand written collector's notes
DRAW KNIFE (DEBARKER), SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
wood, steel
2 x 15 x 1.25 in — 5.7 x 38.1 x 3.8 cm
PARFLECHE (SADDLE BAG), FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
hide, paint
10 x 8 x 4 in — 25.4 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm
BELT BEADED WITH GEOMETRIC DESIGNS, 20th CENTURY
leather, dear hide, sinew, cotton thread, steel buckle
1.5 x 37 x .125 in — 3.8 x 94 x 0.3 cm
BEADED VERTEBRA, FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
bone, glass beads, cotton fabric and thread
2.2 x 1.25 x 1 in — 5.6 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm
SMALL DRUM, FOURTH QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
gourd, hide, cotton thread, graphite
2.75 x 4 x 4 in — 7 x 10.2 x 10.2 cm
Estimate $700-$900
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Provenance:
Reputedly purchased from the widow of Sub Chief Black Eagle of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota/Nebraska, USA
H.M. Worcester Indian Artifacts, 1973
Collection of C. Frank Turner, Toronto, ON
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto, ON
Note:
Cyril Francis (C. Frank) Turner was an individual of many talents, and a remarkably varied life. A wartime commando, and flying officer, peacetime militiaman, author, editor, and amateur historian (who could trace his ancestry to 14th century Mawddwy Bandits in Wales), he is perhaps most remembered for authoring the popular 1973 book Across the Medicine Line: The Epic Confrontation Between Sitting Bull and the North-West Mounted Police.
An adventurer with a hands-on approach to the study of history, Turner assembled a collection of historical First Nations objects, and traveled to many of the far flung, and at times dangerous locations covered in his book, interviewing first-hand, and keeping correspondence with descendants of participants in the events. Speaking in 1973 of the urgency of preserving stories, Turner expressed, “The land is still there. So are the descendants, Indians and Whites. It is the heritage that is fading away.”
Waddington’s is pleased to present the research archives, and First Nations collection of Cyril Francis Turner.