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Lot 71
Sale 6422 - Native American Art
Sep 25, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$6,000 -
8,000
Price Realized
$7,040
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Lot Description
Elizabeth Runs the Enemy
softly tanned, thick hide, sinew-sewn and beaded with colors of medium and dark blue, greasy yellow, green, white, and red white-heart; hide is coated with yellow pigment
overall length 54 inches; length of longest fringe, 14 inches
Included is a handwritten note of provenance: This gun case was made by Elizabeth Run[sic] the Enemy, a full-blood Sioux Indian girl, and is the property of A.P. Darling.
Elizabeth Runs the Enemy is listed in the 1884 Cheyenne River Agency census as the daughter of Abraham Runs the Enemy and Lucy The Cloud.
The Emily T. and Adolphus Andrews Collection of Native American Art
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
(Lakota, b. ca 1870)
Beaded Hide Rifle Scabbard
softly tanned, thick hide, sinew-sewn and beaded with colors of medium and dark blue, greasy yellow, green, white, and red white-heart; hide is coated with yellow pigment
overall length 54 inches; length of longest fringe, 14 inches
Included is a handwritten note of provenance: This gun case was made by Elizabeth Run[sic] the Enemy, a full-blood Sioux Indian girl, and is the property of A.P. Darling.
Elizabeth Runs the Enemy is listed in the 1884 Cheyenne River Agency census as the daughter of Abraham Runs the Enemy and Lucy The Cloud.
The Emily T. and Adolphus Andrews Collection of Native American Art
This lot is located in Cincinnati.