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DEER, Esther Louise Georgette (1891 – 1992). Princess White Deer. The Only Dancing American Indian Girl. Hamburg: Adolph Friedländer, [ca. 1913]. Full-color stone lithograph bears a bust portrait of the famed Mohawk woman wearing a war bonnet, depicted on the surface of a buffalo hide held aloft by an eagle with American shield overhead and surrounded by popular totems representative of Native American culture. 37 × 27 ¼”. Linen backed. Creases, repaired separation, tiny losses and retouching at intersecting folds. A-.
Exemplars, p. 225.Esther Deer began performing in Wild West shows as a young girl at the beginning of the twentieth century, and toured the United States, Europe, and South Africa with the Famous Deer Brothers. Around the time of World War I, Deer returned to the U.S., became a Ziegfeld girl, appeared in Broadway musicals, and starred in a 1925 play that she wrote, From Wigwam to White Lights. She was once referred to as a “Susan B. Anthony of the American Indians” due to her Native American voting rights activism.