Auction: September 9, 2025

Lot #235: Two Guns White Calf (Blackfeet, 1872-1934) Beaded Moccasins and Image

(3) total items including the pair of tanned hide moccasins partially decorated in a lazy stitch beaded geometric symbolic pattern, having trade cloth trim and signed to a sole using the pictographic cypher of the Piegan Blackfeet chief, an offset copy of a 1927 photograph by T. J. Hileman (American, 1882-1945) ink signed and dated by Hileman and by Two Guns White Calf using his pictographic cypher, matted behind glass in an 11 by 14-inch wood frame; together with an arrowhead shaped copper pendant having "Grand Council / North American Indian / Denver 1915" above an inset Indian Head 5c, which Two Guns White Calf believed was a portrait of himself