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AJLaFleche
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Likes like another recruit!
Steve
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What is that he is waving around? That ain't a plains warrior's bow. European perhaps or Asian, but not Cheyenne. I suppose he could have knocked off a passing Celt...oh, there I go with that boring accuracy thing. My bad.
megroot
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Very nice paintwork.
I don't know nothing about the history but the bow snare (don't know the good word) should be straighten. It lays on his arm with a curve. That is not correct.
Marc
I don't know nothing about the history but the bow snare (don't know the good word) should be straighten. It lays on his arm with a curve. That is not correct.
Marc
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Nice figure - only a pity around the bow...
http://cjshosting.net/fticatalog/images/BOW21.jpg
http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/american-indian-bows/
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http://cjshosting.net/fticatalog/images/BOW21.jpg
http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/american-indian-bows/
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salonikios
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nice painting! i like the drawings in the back
Ulrich
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The bow is a "little bit" wrong. I think they want to show a so called "bowlance"
Here an picture from Carl Bodmer showing an assiniboin warrior together with a figure based on the picture.
And here another photo from a Lakota bowlance
So I think the right idea but the execution is not ok.
Ulrich
Here an picture from Carl Bodmer showing an assiniboin warrior together with a figure based on the picture.
And here another photo from a Lakota bowlance
So I think the right idea but the execution is not ok.
Ulrich
Steve
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Fellas, I need to apologize for the tone of my observation. I just write down the way it sounds in my head and sometimes it is not the best way to air a criticism. My apologies to Pizzaro. I recognize that the weapon portrayed is intended to be a bow-lance; that item was of ceremonial use and not by Wooden Leg's time (this is the name of an actual Cheyenne warrior to fought in the 1876-1877 war) used in combat. Wooden Leg was only a very young man at this time and probably would not have handled the sacred relic of the tribe. By the way, this is a beautiful figure, nit picking aside.
AJLaFleche
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If it's supposed to be a bowlance and it's a metal casting, correction is easy. By lessening the curvature of the bow, you would likely get a properly scaled bowlance.
According to the Osprey books, Tribes of the Sioux Nation, by Michael Johnson and Jonathan Smith, and Warriors at the Little Bighorn, and American Plains Indians, by Richard and Jason Hook the bowlance was used by the Cheyenne and Sioux as late as the 1880's.
Wooden Leg (17 to 19 at the time) was at the Little Bighorn and Amos Bad Heart Bull is credited with a pictograph from the depicting the carrying of a bowlance at Greasy Grass.
Perhaps the painter misinterpreted this ceremonial weapon and "corrected" it.
According to the Osprey books, Tribes of the Sioux Nation, by Michael Johnson and Jonathan Smith, and Warriors at the Little Bighorn, and American Plains Indians, by Richard and Jason Hook the bowlance was used by the Cheyenne and Sioux as late as the 1880's.
Wooden Leg (17 to 19 at the time) was at the Little Bighorn and Amos Bad Heart Bull is credited with a pictograph from the depicting the carrying of a bowlance at Greasy Grass.
Perhaps the painter misinterpreted this ceremonial weapon and "corrected" it.
pipetrepid
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well done and nice pose! bill
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