Author Topic: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?  (Read 15596 times)

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Re: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #45 on: August 18, 2014, 11:58:53 am »
I'm posting a follow-up on this topic. It took four years but I found her! The Native American lady who was the subject of my pyrography mirrors appears to be from a 1902 painting called simply "Indian Squaw" by Elbridge Ayer Burbank.

Here is the Indian Squaw painting and the portrait on my mirror:



And for comparison so that you don't have to scroll back, here is the portrait previously ID'd as Wolf Robe and his photo:



Here is the whole mirror:




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Re: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #46 on: August 18, 2014, 12:32:22 pm »
I was not here when you did this one !! I wondered why I didn`t remember it !!  How did you finally find out who it was ??

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Re: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #47 on: August 18, 2014, 12:52:26 pm »
I was thinking about the mirror this morning and so I ran yet another of many random Google image searches. This time I searched for Sioux squaw and BINGO! There she was!
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Re: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #48 on: August 18, 2014, 02:17:27 pm »
That's an interesting mirror !! Its unusual to have Native American images on it !!  Glad you finally found out who it was !!

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Re: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #49 on: August 18, 2014, 03:25:50 pm »
I have tried researching Paul Albert LaForte and found 2:  1 in Canada and 1 in Massachusetts.  Only reference to them...but no additional information.  Will keep searching!
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Re: UPDATE: What Can You Tell Me About My Native American Mirrors?
« Reply #50 on: August 19, 2014, 10:10:41 am »
Yet another piece of a mystery solved !!!

Nice work , talesof .

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