By David Humphreys Miller. Colored pencil and crayon on tinted art paper, drawn from life c. 1940, unsigned. 10"x8". When David Miller first met Old Eagle in the summer of 1940, the Sansarc warrior's hair had been cut short in mourning for his recently-deceased wife. Old Eagle fought against Reno's forces at the Little Big Horn. About a year after the Custer battle, he was blinded in one eye during a fight with an enemy Indian, and he attributed his nickname, Amos Clown, to the unusual appearance of his bad eye.

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