VINTAGE MARBLE ETCHED WAR CHIEF IN LAHORE

8 1/2" by 10 3/4" cultured marble picture is etched in such a way as to render three dimensional relief. You not only can see the beauty and detail of each piece, you can feel it too. The War Chief is a Sioux warrior. The Sioux Indians were the same tribe that fought General Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, wiping out his entire command of over 265 men. This Chieftain is 'dressed-out' in Sioux-Cheyenne Indian garb. Actually, the Sioux Nation is broken into seven sub-tribes, (the Blackfoot, etc.)...These seven tribes belong to a family called "Teton Lakota." "Sioux" means "Snake," and was bestowed upon them by their Red Brothers to the East, as a warning to the encroaching white trappers. A Sioux on the ground was just another tough Indian, but put a good war 'horse' under a score of them, and "Watch out entire US of A Army!" They, and most of the rest of their Native Brothers, at least, were equals to history's best cavalry soldiers. - Bill O'Neill Views: 12