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Black Elk (Nicholas Black Elk, Sr.) By David Humphreys Miller. Colored pencil and crayon on tinted art paper, drawn from life c. 1939, unsigned. 11"x8". Among the more famous individuals sketched by the young David Miller, Black Elk made Miller his adoptive son in 1939. He was the first of a number of older Indians to do so. The Oglala Sioux Medicine Man was only 13 years old when he fought in the Custer battle. In 1890 he was foremost priest of the Ghost Dance, and was the subject of John G. Neihardt's popular book Black Elk Speaks. He died in 1950, at the age of 87. |
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