Although identically framed (same wood frame, linen backing mat, and glass front) the medallions were slightly different. I have seen two different framed, color medallions come up for sale online in recent years: one in 2014 in New Mexico and another in 2020 from a New Jersey estate. If Cybis had decided to offer this as a retail piece to the general public after the closure of the Folio One issue, it would appear in circa-1970s Cybis catalogs and price lists….but it does not. The framing was probably done by the previous owner. ( Quanah Parker was the last Comanche leader he was born in 1848 and died in 1911.) This appears to be a white bisque version but it’s difficult to tell from a black-and-white photo. ![]() It is described as Quana Comanche Indian Chief Plaque, completed limited edition of 100, $125. As you can see, it shows the same medallion mounted and framed. This stand-alone medallion issue appears in a 1973 retail price list from a major Cybis dealer, Armstrongs in Pomona, CA. This is one of the few Cybis molds that were cast in lead rather than in the usual clay. The medallion is approximately 2.5″ in diameter. The presence of the year (1970) in the mold clearly indicates that its purpose was to accompany the Folio One which was introduced in that year and by all indications was completed by the end of 1972. At the time of issue of the Folio, the medallion was not given a name, nor is it included in the 1979 catalog appendix of Cybis porcelain issues. This medallion design is a rendition of the Comanche ‘Indomitable Spirit’ portrait drawing by Boleslaw Cybis. Now residing in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, she also has written Jim Thorpe, the Legend Remembered, published by Pelican.The small white bisque medallion originally designed to accent the facing page of the Cybis Folio One collection of Native American lithographs was given several subsequent ‘second lives’ as a stand-alone porcelain edition. Brave warrior, respected leader, and dedicated lobbyist in the fight for Indian rights, he remained a liaison between his people and the white man while acting to preserve the Comanche heritage on the reservation.Īuthor Rosemary Kissinger Updyke was born and raised in east Texas, where she first heard the story of the exciting exploits of Quanah Parker. This is the story of the legendary Quanah Parker-part white, but thoroughly Comanche. Eventually, however, Quanah's tribe succumbed to the overwhelming new hardships of existence on the plains, and Quanah, the last Indian chief to surrender, brought his people to the reservation. As a chief, Quanah watched as other tribes were forced to take refuge on reservations set up by the United States government, and he vowed to his people that they would never leave their land without a fight. This son, named Quanah for the flower-filled valley of his birth, was destined to become one of the greatest Comanche chiefs ever to have lived.Īs the call for expansion reached its height during the nineteenth century and America rapidly began moving westward, the American Indians became threatened as their food supply, the huge buffalo herds that roamed the plains, was slaughtered almost to extinction. ![]() She eventually married and gave birth to a son. In May 1836, a large war party of Comanche Indians attacked a small fort in Texas, abducting blond, blue-eyed Cynthia Ann Parker, who was nine years old at the time.Īdopted into the tribe, for more than twenty years Cynthia Ann, renamed Naudah by her captors, lived the life of a Comanche.
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