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The cigar store Indian became less common in the 20th century for a variety of reasons. [6] Sidewalk-obstruction laws dating as far back as 1911 were one cause. [7] Later issues included higher manufacturing costs, restrictions on tobacco advertising, and increased sensitivity towards depictions of Native Americans, all of which relegated the figures to museums and antique shops. [8]
Cigar store figure by Samuel Anderson Robb, William Demuth and Company, New York City, 1870. Samuel Anderson Robb (c. 1851–1928) was an American sculptor, best known for his carved wooden figures for tobacco shops and circus wagons. Robb was born in New York City, the son of a Scottish shipwright.
Steel-hulled ship construction came to take over from those of wood in the 1870s, and Côté turned his skills elsewhere: furniture, signs, cigar store Indians, religious carvings, hearses, tombstones, and others. He began attracting attention for his statuary, and in 1877 won a special prize at the provincial exhibition for his wooden statues.
Pages in category "Wooden sculptures" ... Cigar store Indian; Cristo Negro (Portobelo) E. ... Statue of Donald Trump (Slovenia)
Let's Carve Wooden Plaques, Harold L. Enlow, 1977 ISBN 1-882475-00-3 "Carve Your Own Hillbillkins," Little People of the Ozarks, Harold L. Enlow, 1979; Carving Western Figures, Harold L. Enlow, 1984; How to Carve Folk Figures and a Cigar-store Indian, Harold L. Enlow, 1979 ISBN 0-486-23748-6; How to Carve Hobos, Harold L. Enlow, 1989
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Some interpret Kaw-Liga as a stoical Native American stereotype; however, the subject of masculine pride and emotional hardness is a popular one in country music, and the then-common "dime-store Indians" (which were the store's way of advertising that they sold tobacco) being made of unmoving wood was a perfect symbol of an aversion to ...
She wore a dingy pumpkin-orange thrift-store turtleneck that swallowed her 5-foot-7, 98-pound frame. But her ice-blue eyes sparkled like a kid’s on Christmas morning. “Oh boy!
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