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Two Moons - Cheyenne
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Two Moons - Cheyenne

Artist (1868 - 1952)
Date1910
MediumPhotogravure
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2005.28.213
Accession number 2005.28.213
DescriptionPlate 213
On View
Not on view
Provenance(William Reese Company, New Haven, CT); purchased by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005
Label TextEdward Curtis wrote: "Two Moons was one of the Cheyenne chiefs at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, when Custer's command was annihilated by a force of Sioux and Cheyenne." Following the battle, Two Moons visited Washington, DC, several times to fight for better living conditions on the Cheyenne reservation. In 1914, he met with President Woodrow Wilson to discuss these matters.