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Fine arts > Sculpture > Cigar-store Indians

Preferred term

Cigar-store Indians  

Definition

  • Use for cigar-store figures representing American Indians; popular as cigar store advertising signs from the 1850s until the 1890s. [AAT]

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Indians, cigar-store
  • Indians, wooden
  • Tobacconist carving, cigar-store Indians
  • Tobacconists' figures, cigar-store Indians
  • Wooden Indians

Notation

  • 122077

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-MW8CFNJ0-L

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