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Post by Diane Merkel on Sept 11, 2009 20:38:35 GMT -6
 From Antiques and the Arts Online: An Indian rifle owned by White Man Runs Him, the scout for General George A. Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn, dominated the action at Kaminski Auctions, where it sold for $21,850. White Man Runs Him decorated the gun with thunderbird symbols, and, according to notarized documents accompanying the lot, he saw it as sacred and used it for tribal ceremonies.
White Man Runs Him, also known as White Buffalo That Turns Around, kept accounts of the battle, and of Custer, which portrayed the general as less than heroic. White Man Runs Him's gun had remained in his Montana family until July 2004, when his granddaughter Winona Yellowtail sold it. The gun sold at Kaminski to a Connecticut collector who was active throughout the sale. Source: antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/AuctionWatch/2009-09-08__10-45-13.html |
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Post by clw on Sept 12, 2009 7:04:17 GMT -6
Very interesting. What is it?
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Post by Dark Cloud on Sept 12, 2009 10:54:24 GMT -6
What's what?
Is the price based upon WMRH's ownership, or that the rifle was used at the battle, a claim absent from the description but perhaps hopefully assumed?
Nice looking item, though.
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Post by clw on Sept 12, 2009 12:44:14 GMT -6
 Sorry, I was in a hurry. I meant make and model. |
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Post by HinTamaheca on Sept 13, 2009 14:12:36 GMT -6
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Post by clw on Sept 13, 2009 14:38:31 GMT -6
Wow. Thanks Hin, I'm sure someone will.
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Post by BrokenSword on Sept 15, 2009 11:19:51 GMT -6
clw & hin,
It's either a British Snider carbine, or a French copy of some sort. The French copied the Snider firing mechanism for a rifle they used during the Franco-Prussian War.
Of course, rawhide has been wrapped around much of it, probably to repair broken wooden parts.
(Rawhide = The Duct Tape of the Plains)
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Post by sherppa on Sept 15, 2009 12:06:16 GMT -6
I think you are right BrokenSword. I'll do some diggin but at a guess I would say you are correct, the only question that remains is how did it get into WMRH's hands.
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Post by wolfgang911 on Sept 16, 2009 16:21:15 GMT -6
clw & hin, Of course, rawhide has been wrapped around much of it, probably to repair broken wooden parts. (Rawhide = The Duct Tape of the Plains)   |
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