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Cunne Shote (Standing Turkey)
1762 Cherokee Chief
1/10 scale resin bust
Sculpted by: Carl Reid
Box art painted by: Sang Eon Lee
Item: CR05
www.unitedempireminiatures.com
The bust is based on the painting by Francis Parsons 1762
Standing Turkey — also known as Cunne Shote or Kunagadoga —Born 1710, died 1785. Succeeded his uncle, Kanagatucko, or Old Hop, as First Beloved Man of the Cherokee upon the latter's death in 1760. Pro-French like his uncle, he steered the Cherokee into war with the British colonies of South Carolina and Virginia in their aftermath of the murders of several Cherokee leaders held hostage at Fort Prince George at the edge of the Lower Towns of the Cherokee in what is now western South Carolina. He held office until the end of the Anglo-Cherokee War in 1761, when he was deposed in favor of Attakullakulla.
He was one of three Cherokee leaders to go with Virginia Lieutenant Henry Timberlake to London in 1762 -1763, the others being Ostenaco and Pidgeon. The trip was made to reaffirm a peace treaty between the British crown and the Cherokee, ending a three year conflict. Cunne Shote by Francis Parsons in a combination of English and Cherokee clothing accoutrements suggest a harmonious unity between cultures. On the other hand, Cunne Shote’s firm grip on his scalping knife is a visual reminder of the tenuous relations between the Cherokee, English and other Europeans living in the southern part of America.
In 1782, he was one of a party of Cherokee which joined the Lenape, Shawnee, and Chickasaw in a diplomatic visit to the Spanish at Fort St. Louis in the Missouri country in seeking a new avenue of obtaining arms and other assistance in the prosecution of their ongoing conflict with the Americans in the Ohio Valley. The group of Cherokee by Standing Turkey sought and received permission to settle in Spanish Louisiana, in the region of the White River.
1762 Cherokee Chief
1/10 scale resin bust
Sculpted by: Carl Reid
Box art painted by: Sang Eon Lee
Item: CR05
www.unitedempireminiatures.com
The bust is based on the painting by Francis Parsons 1762
Standing Turkey — also known as Cunne Shote or Kunagadoga —Born 1710, died 1785. Succeeded his uncle, Kanagatucko, or Old Hop, as First Beloved Man of the Cherokee upon the latter's death in 1760. Pro-French like his uncle, he steered the Cherokee into war with the British colonies of South Carolina and Virginia in their aftermath of the murders of several Cherokee leaders held hostage at Fort Prince George at the edge of the Lower Towns of the Cherokee in what is now western South Carolina. He held office until the end of the Anglo-Cherokee War in 1761, when he was deposed in favor of Attakullakulla.
He was one of three Cherokee leaders to go with Virginia Lieutenant Henry Timberlake to London in 1762 -1763, the others being Ostenaco and Pidgeon. The trip was made to reaffirm a peace treaty between the British crown and the Cherokee, ending a three year conflict. Cunne Shote by Francis Parsons in a combination of English and Cherokee clothing accoutrements suggest a harmonious unity between cultures. On the other hand, Cunne Shote’s firm grip on his scalping knife is a visual reminder of the tenuous relations between the Cherokee, English and other Europeans living in the southern part of America.
In 1782, he was one of a party of Cherokee which joined the Lenape, Shawnee, and Chickasaw in a diplomatic visit to the Spanish at Fort St. Louis in the Missouri country in seeking a new avenue of obtaining arms and other assistance in the prosecution of their ongoing conflict with the Americans in the Ohio Valley. The group of Cherokee by Standing Turkey sought and received permission to settle in Spanish Louisiana, in the region of the White River.
