250 - [Americana]. ALEXANDER, Hartley Burr.

[Americana]. ALEXANDER, Hartley Burr. Sioux Indian Painting. Part I [&] II. Nice, C. Szwedzicki, 1938. 2 folio volumes (49.5 x 39 cm), 15 pp., 25 plates, and 10 pp., 25 plates. Loose sheets in a gray half-percale slipcase with corners and laces provided by the publisher; a silkscreen print mounted on the top cover of each volume (some scuffing on the slipcases; laces missing, but interior pages remain in good condition). First edition. Limited edition of 400 copies, all numbered by the publisher; these are Part I, no. 341, and Part II, no. 354. *Sioux Indian Painting*, published in 1938, consists of two parts: *Sioux Indian Painting. Part I: Painting of the Sioux and Other Tribes of the Great Plains* and *Sioux Indian Painting. Part II: The Art of Amos Bad Heart Buffalo*, with prefaces and annotations by Hartley Burr Alexander. From a series of six portfolios devoted to Native American art published in France between 1929 and 1952. Rare, complete with all 25 plates per part. A fine copy. The illustrations consist of 50 plates (featuring 51 figures) printed on fine paper using color phototype. It begins with 25 reproductions of works by artists from the Great Plains, including Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Amos Bad Heart Buffalo (Tatanka Cante Sice), Pretty Hawk, Chief Charles Washakie, Katsikodi, and Silver Horn (Haun-goo-ah). The second part includes 25 reproductions of works by the Oglala Sioux artist Amos Bad Heart Buffalo (Tatanka Cante Sice) (1869–1913), one of the eyewitnesses to the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Each print is numbered and reproduces a work on paper depicting scenes and motifs from the Great Plains.