A CARVED AND PAINTED CIGAR STORE INDIAN

AMERICAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND PAINTED CIGAR STORE INDIAN
American, late 19th century
The full-bodied black-painted form depicting an Indian standing with fully articulated musculature and wearing red, yellow, green and gold-painted headdress, gold drop earrings, a brown and gold-painted sash and cloth and red and green-painted articulated and gold coin-decorated feather skirt, holding a spear and gilt-acanthus-edge red-painted shield, on a circular plinth
50in. high

Lot Essay

An identical Cigar Store figure is illustrated in C.P. Hornung, Treasury of American Design, vol. I (New York, 1972), p.55, fig. 121. Two wood painted Page Boy and Page Girl lamp and cigar lighters by Wm. Demuth are illustrated and discussed in Fried, Artists in Wood (New York, 1970), p.36, fig.21 and may be related to the figure illustrated here.

Microanalysis shows the wood of this figure to be maple.

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