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Lot:3055 1912-1913 Portrait Medal of Native American Sunka-Hanska-Oglala-Sioux. Uniface. By Edward Sawyer. Le

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1912-1913 Portrait Medal of Native American Sunka-Hanska-Oglala-Sioux. Uniface. By Edward Sawyer. Lead-Backed Bronzed Copper Galvano. As Made. 71 mm. Obv: Bust left with name SUNKA - HANSKA - OGLALA - SIOUX around, inscription MANDERSON / SO. DAKOTA / 1912 at lower left, artists signature SAWYER at right border behind portrait. Rev: Blank with small piece of felt backing attached with glue. Edge: Encircled C and date 1913 just before 6 oclock. Sunka-Hanska means Long Dog, and he was also known as "Crazy Jack," a perhaps surprising moniker for so prominent a tribe member. The Moose Jaw Public Library has a circa 1900 photograph of Sunka-Hanska and states that he "apparently lived from 1860 to 1917."This medal is part of Sawyers American Indian series, and it may have served as inspiration for the obverse of James Earle Frasers famous Buffalo nickel introduced in 1913. The artist created a truly memorable medallic series, living among Western tribes and modeling about 42 pieces. Sawyer, a student of Hermon A. MacNeil of Standing Liberty quarter fame, was awarded the ANS Saltus medal. A critical aspect of his achievement in producing this series was gaining the confidence of his subjects. The bond of trust may explain why he did not have examples produced for sale.Indeed, these pieces were produced only as galvanos, by Medallic Art Company in New York. An incomplete set was donated by the artist to the Smithsonian Institution, and small numbers are in the collections of other institutions. Two sizes are known, 70 mm (approximately), as here, and 5 inches. The American Numismatic Society has 39 examples, most a donation from Mark Eidlitz in 1940. Eidlitz, the noted architect, was one of the most accomplished medal collectors of his day, and his statue within the ANS certainly explains why he was one of the few who could prevail on Sawyer to sell him these pieces. A pledge for future donation to the ANS may have been part of the agreement.The medals have been known to so few over the years that Dick Johnson, who curated the issues of Medallic Art Company as a full time position, wrote in 2010 that all examples were in museums. The medals were published circa 1912-1913 by the Smithsonian, in The Numismatist</em> and elsewhere, but few were in public hands. However, an example from Sawyers series was recently offered on eBay (for $6,500). Bonhams sale of June 5, 2017, had two examples (including a Sunka), estimated $3,000 to $5,000, and each sold for $2,574. Heritages sale of June 2018 featured 18 Sawyer medals, the majority of which realized between $3,360 to $7,800. It is believed they had been kept together until the 2010s. They were 5-inch examples, and mostly well preserved. Although the majority of Sawyer medals in private hands are 5-inch examples, those in institutional collections are mainly the 70 mm version, as here.A set of nine 70 mm pieces was exhibited at the 2018 ANA Convention, and another 70 mm example is in a private collection in Massachusetts (recently acquired), raising the census of privately owned examples to 13. The set exhibited at the 2018 ANA Convention had been acquired decades ago and kept together until the widow of the collector sold them that year. The present medal is from that set, and its offering in this sale represents a rare bidding opportunity for the advanced collector to acquire an example of this beautiful, rare, yet often overlooked representation of early 20th century American medallic art.

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