TWO WHISTLES’ medicine hawk headdress and painted face were captured by Edward Curtis in 1905 on Montana’s Crow Reservation, southeast of Billings. The raptor’s split hide was attached to the braided-hair topknot. Two Whistles (Ishichoshtupsh) was shot during the Crow Rebellion of 1887, and his left arm was amputated below the elbow.
The Crow identified themselves as Apsáalooke (often “Apsaroke” in early literature), Children of the Large Beaked Bird. The stunning portrait appeared in Volume 4 of Curtis’s monumental 20-volume “The North American Indian.”
I just wonder if that was the inspiration for Tonto in the Lone Ranger movie.
P-61B-15 weapon firing at the factory shooting range
