#two whistles

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Two Whistles, an Apsaroke (Crow) Native American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, face painted, wearing medicine hawk headdress, buckskin shirt, and shell necklaces. Ca. 1908.

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Edward S. Curtis. Two Whistles. 1908.

Two Whistles, also known as Ishichoshtupsh, was born in 1856 among the Mountain Crow of the Not Mixed clan. At the age of eighteen Two Whistles led a small party of men and “captured” a hundred horses from the Sioux. That he participated in battles with the Arapaho and Sioux at Pryor creek. Two Whistles tells of his first fast at the age of thirty-five, that during his first night, he saw the war bonnet of a Sioux. On the following day he cut the image of eight hoof prints in his arms, and that on that night, the moon came to him and revealed the location of where buffalo and horses could be found, and proclaimed that as a result of this vision he would never be poor.

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Two Whistles - Apsaroke, Edward S. Curtis

via Northwestern University

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