Tuesday, September 9, 2025
LOT #235

Two Guns White Calf (Blackfeet, 1872-1934) Beaded Moccasins and Image

(3) total items including the pair of tanned hide moccasins partially decorated in a lazy stitch beaded geometric symbolic pattern, having trade cloth trim and signed to a sole using the pictographic cypher of the Piegan Blackfeet chief, an offset copy of a 1927 photograph by T. J. Hileman (American, 1882-1945) ink signed and dated by Hileman and by Two Guns White Calf using his pictographic cypher, matted behind glass in an 11 by 14-inch wood frame; together with an arrowhead shaped copper pendant having “Grand Council / North American Indian / Denver 1915” above an inset Indian Head 5c, which Two Guns White Calf believed was a portrait of himself

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

Hammer Price: $1,200

Provenance: High Noon Western Americana, Lot #60 January 28th, 2012

Dimensions: Height: 3 1/2 inches, Width: 3 inches, Length: 10 1/4 inches (each moccasin)

Condition: moccasins having overall light wear consistent with normal use, leather supple, no damage to framed item noted, light wear to frame, pendant and nickel worn, moccasins having overall light wear consistent with normal use, leather supple, no damage to framed item noted, light wear to frame, pendant and nickel worn

Disclaimers: not examined out of frame

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