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Sun River Encampment, by John DeMott

Currency:USD Category:Art Start Price:25,000.00 USD Estimated At:65,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD
Sun River Encampment, by John DeMott
This exciting live fine art auction includes 100 lots of original paintings, sculptures and limited edition photographic prints. All paintings are framed or gallery-wrapped.
Artist: John DeMott. Title: Sun River Encampment. Size: 30" x 48". Medium: Oil. Description: The Sun River is known to the Blackfeet Indians as the Medicine River because of unusual mineral deposits along its banks which possessed powerful medicinal properties. The river cuts a handsome path through a narrow canyon, unlike any other in Montana, as it winds its way out of the Bob Marshall Wilderness. The river flows through the prairie grasslands, and finally meanders past cottonwood bottoms on its way to Missouri at Great Falls. Free for centuries to follow the buffalo, various Native American tribes traversed the Lands along the Sun River. The benchlands provided a thoroughfare between western hunting grounds and the Judith and Musselshell hunting grounds east of the Missouri River. During the seventeenth century, the Flathead-Salish-Kutenai tribes lived along the Sun River, but these groups lost control due to wars during the early 18th century with marauding Blackfeet, who defended it fiercely. Eventually, over 10,000 Blackfeet commanded a 32,000 square mile territory extending from the Milk River to the North down to the Sun. The Blackfeet name for the Sun River, “The Great Medicine Road to the Buffalo", reflects the importance it held in their culture.