Details
Title Woman Chief.
Alternate title “Pine Leaf,” the Indian heroine, mounted on her war-horse.
Publisher [New York : s.n.]
Date [1856?]
Physical description 1 print : engraving ; 8.1 x 11.1 cm
Description Full-length portrait of the woman warrior astride a horse.
Notes In The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth (New York, 1856), p. [203].
The Native American woman was taken captive and adopted by the Crows when she was about ten. After excelling as a warrior, she became a chief, and was known as Bíawacheeitchish, or Woman Chief. She married four women in her lodge. In his autobiography, James Pierson Beckwourth, calling her Pine Leaf or Bar-chee-am-pe, claims to have had a romantic relationship with her.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1859.
Portrait prints -- 1850-1859.
Subject Women.
Woman Chief -- Portraits.
Two-spirit people.
Indians of North America.