L.R.298.b.2, 4(111)

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of Two Whistles, an Apsaroke. The bird he wears fastened to the back of his head symbolizes his tutelary spirit. His biography is given in The North American Indian, volume 4, p.207: 'Born 1856. Mountain Crow of the Not Mixed clan and Lumpwood organization. Never achieved a recognized coup, but at the age of eighteen he led a party consisting, besides himself, of two others, which captured a hundred horses from the Sioux. Participated in four severe battles against Arapaho and Sioux, one being the engagement at the mouth of Pryor creek (see page 96). First fasted at the age of thirty-five. The first night he saw the warbonnet of a Sioux; the next day he cut the skin and flesh of his arms in representation of eight hoof-prints; and that night the moon came to him and said, "At lyehopish (the country about Livingston, Montana) are buffalo and horses mixed; you will never be poor." In the outbreak caused by the medicine-man Wraps Up His Tail, at Crow Agency in 1887, Two Whistles was shot in the arm and breast, necessitating the amputation of the arm above the elbow. His medicine of hawk was purchased with a horse from a Sioux.'