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Four 1913 Prints by Rodman Wanamaker

Currency:USD Category:American Indian Art Start Price:25.00 USD Estimated At:60.00 - 80.00 USD
Four 1913 Prints by Rodman Wanamaker
Four 1913 Prints by Rodman Wanamaker, measure 9.5'' x 7'', includes ''Down the Western Slope'', ''The Reno Battlefield'', ''Warriors of Other Days'' and ''The Custer Battlefield'', FYI: ''Between 1908 and 1913, Wanamaker sponsored three photographic expeditions to the American Indians intended to document a vanishing way of life and make the Indian ''first-class citizens'' to save them from extinction. At that time, Indians were viewed as a ''vanishing race'', and efforts were made to bring them increasingly into the mainstream of American life, often at the expense of their culture and traditions. Joseph K. Dixon was the photographer. On the first expedition, he made many portraits and captured scenes of Indian life. Dixon published them in a book, The Vanishing Race. (Original copies of the book are becoming scarce as people break it up to sell the photographs individually.) The expedition climaxed on the Crow Indian Reservation with the filming of a motion picture about Hiawatha. The second expedition in 1909 involved a motion filming a reenactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn. The third expedition, the ''Expedition of Citizenship,'' took place in 1913. For it, the American flag was carried to many tribes, and their members were invited to sign a declaration of allegiance to the United States.''
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