Sack, George D.
Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:
List of Bronzes, late 19th century - early 20th century
For George Sack, list of bronzes and their prices.
Nature's Cattle, 1912
Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze family of buffalo. Remarks for the photograph include, "This is a family of a large herd trailing to water. They are called here 'Nature's Cattle' because they meant to the Indian what beef cattle mean to us."
Oh, Mother What is It', 1914
Leather album page with a photograph of bronze mother bear with her cubs staying away from a porcupine. The remarks about the photograph include, "Mother bear teaching her cubs to beware of the porcupine as his needles are poisonous and very hard to pull out."
Receipt, December 7, 1926
A receipt accounting the transactions between George Sack and the Russells, Dec. 7, 1926, was attached to TU2009.39.2823.
Secrets of the Night, 1926
Leather album page with the photograph titled, 'Secrets of the Night.' it is a bronze of a Shoshone Indian with the remark, "This Indian has been waiting a long time before his fire on a mountain top for a message from the shadow world or sand hills. The owl which is the ghost bird, or messenger from the other world, has finally come to him and is whispering its secrets of the night."
Sleeping Thunder, 1902
A leather album page with a photograph of a bronze bust of an Indian man. Remarks about the photograph include, "Sleeping Thunder was a chief of the Bloods, a tribe belonging to the Blackfoot confederation and living near the Canadian line. He was a good friend of Charlie's who lived with the tribe for a time. The Chief wanted him to marry and remain with them. This was in 1888 and Charlie said he was one of the finest types of Indian he ever knew."
Smoking Up, 1903
Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze man on horse firing his gun into the air. Remarks about the photograph include, "Cowboy on a spree in town. This is their recreation after many months on the range. This was the first of Charlie's models to be cast."
Spirit of the Buffalo, 1914
Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Blackfoot Medicine Man and Buffalo Skull. Remarks for the photograph include, "this Indian is a 'Sun Priest,' or commonly called 'Medicine Man,' as none but one favored by Sun would be allowed to smoke the sacred buffalo pipe and pray to the spirit of the buffalo which he is doing and offering the pipe to the skull, or spirit and at the same time begging him to send buffalo to his people as they are starving."
The Blackfoot War Dance, 1905
Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze showing the Blackfoot war dance. Remarks about the photograph include, "Dancing the war dance as part of their ceremony preparatory to going on the war trail against their enemies, or on a raid to steal horses."
The Bluffers, 1924
Leather album page with a photograph of a bear and a buffalo bronze. The remarks of the photograph include, "These two animals are the biggest we have and when they meet, they are so evenly matched as to strength that they just blow and roar at each other and that is all there is to it, usually. They just bluff as each is afraid of the other."
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