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Sack, George D.

 Person

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

The Mountain Sheep, 1924

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.26
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze sheep with horns. The remarks of the photograph include, "These mountain sheep inhabit the Rockies and are very sure footed. They can travel over slippery rock and other bad places where no other animal could go."

Dates: 1924

The Pig, January 1925

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.29
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze pig. Remarks about the photograph include, "Charlie modelled this piece for my little daughter from was in our home in Jamaica, Long Island."

Dates: January 1925

The Range Father, 1926

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.34
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze stallion chasing a coyote. Remarks include, "Coyotes in numbers will attack and kill young colts. Hence this stallion is protecting his bunch of mares and colts by chasing and often killing the coyote with one stroke of his front hoof on the coyote's back."

Dates: 1926

The Robe Flesher, 1925

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.32
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze of a woman cleaning a buffalo hide. The remarks of the photograph include, "After a kill of buffalo and the meat and hides have been brought into camp the hide, or robe, is staked out on the ground and the woman with a sharp-edged bone scrapes all of the flesh and fat from the hide preparing it for tanning."

Dates: 1925

The Scalp Dancer, 1914

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.15
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian known as the scalp dancer. Remarks about the photograph include, "This Crow, one of a party just returned from a raid against the enemy, is celebrating their victory with feasting, dancing and counting their coup."

Dates: 1914

The Snake Priest, 1914

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.17
Description Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze Indian, Hopi Medicine Man, and a rattle snake. Remarks for the photograph include, "the rattle snake is very sacred among the Hopi Indians as he has the power to bring rain and many are used to carry out their religious snake dance. Snake priests go out into the desert to catch as many as they need and in order to catch them they tickle them with a bunch of eagle feathers called 'a snake whip' until they uncoil and start to wriggle away. The...
Dates: 1914

The Spirit of Winter, 1926

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.35
Description Leather album page of bronze of a man with wolves. The figure is supposed to be Blackfoot Spirit with wolves. Remarks include, "this is an Indian fable of how winter came about. Winter is called by the Blackfoot Indians 'Cold Maker' and this bronze represents him. In the long ago, an Indian died who had been treated badly by his people. He was buried on a scaffold up in the branches of a Cottonwood. One night the wolves came along and pulled his body down from the tree, but found him too...
Dates: 1926

The Texas Steer, 1925

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.33
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze steer. The marks of the photograph include, "After a long drive on the cattle trails, the steers after feeding are ready to bed down for the night and chew their cud in solid contentment."

Dates: 1925

The Wolf, 1925

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.30
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a wolf bronze. Remarks about the photograph include, "Modelled for my daughter in wax by Charlie while visiting us in Jamaica, Long Island."

Dates: 1925

To Noses that Read a Smell that Spells Man, 1920

 Item — Folder: Unknown
Identifier: TU2009.39.8387.21
Description

Leather album page with a photograph of a bronze wolf. The remarks of the photograph include, "This wolf in his wanderings has come upon a deserted camp-ground and there finds scents which he doesn't like, as denoted by the snarl. Man has been here and that means danger."

Dates: 1920

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George D. Sack 102
Nancy C. Russell 96
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