AN AMERICAN BRONZE GROUP OF AN INDIAN CHIEF ON HORSEBACK, cast from a model by Walter Winans, the warrior looking to the left, wearing a long feather headress and trimmings, holding a spear in his left hand with a shield on the forearm, the horse in full stride, head turned to the right, on a stepped rectangular naturalistic base, the front and back edges cast with an Indian mask and crossed weapons, the base signed Walter Winans 1893 and with impressed stamp CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION 1893 AWARDED TO WALTER WINANS, on a later wooden plinth (the weapon missing from the Indians right hand, his spear repaired)

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AN AMERICAN BRONZE GROUP OF AN INDIAN CHIEF ON HORSEBACK, cast from a model by Walter Winans, the warrior looking to the left, wearing a long feather headress and trimmings, holding a spear in his left hand with a shield on the forearm, the horse in full stride, head turned to the right, on a stepped rectangular naturalistic base, the front and back edges cast with an Indian mask and crossed weapons, the base signed Walter Winans 1893 and with impressed stamp CRYSTAL PALACE EXHIBITION 1893 AWARDED TO WALTER WINANS, on a later wooden plinth (the weapon missing from the Indians right hand, his spear repaired)
excluding the plinth: 16½in. (42cm.) wide; 24in. (61cm.) high to point of spear; 8½in. (21.6cm.) deep

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A Russian by birth, Walter Winans (d.1920) spent the larger part of his life in the United States, a painter and sculptor of genre subjects.

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