Offered in this lot is a 1941 travel calendar topper Great Northern Railway. The text reads, "Sundance - Piegan Chief - Glacier National Park - Painting by Winold Reiss". A beautiful colourful print of Piegan Chief Sundance, "venerable representative of the Blackfeet tribe." Description from the Great Northern Railway, "each year since 1932 it has been our privilege to reproduce one of the colorful, true-to-lie portraits of prominent members of the Blackfeet tribe American Indians by the celebrated artist, Winold Reiss. This year we bring you Sundance, wise and honored "Old One" who has traveled the trail of years from exciting buffalo hunts to peaceful The Piegan are an Algonquian-speaking people from the North American Great Plains. They were the largest of three Blackfoot-speaking groups that made up the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Siksika and Kainai were the others. The Piegan dominated much of the northern Great Plains during the nineteenth century. After their homelands were divided by the nations of Canada and the United States of America making boundaries between them, the Piegan people were forced to sign treaties with one of those two countries, settle in reservations on one side or the other of the border, and be enrolled in one of two government-like bodies sanctioned by North American nation-states. These two successor groups are the Blackfeet Nation, a federally recognized tribe in Montana, USA, and the Piikani Nation, a recognized "band" in Alberta, Canada. F. Winold Reiss was a German-born American artist and graphic designer. In 1920 he went West for the first time, working for months on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, painting 36 portraits of tribal members. Over the years Reiss painted more than 250 works depicting Native Americans. Similar paintings by Reiss became known more widely beginning in the 1920 and to the 1950s, when the Great Northern Railway commissioned Reiss to do paintings of the Blackfeet which were then distributed widely as lithographed reproductions on Great Northern calendars. This wood framed print is in good overall condition, no obvious marring noted, slight scuffing noted to frame edges. Provenance from Great Northern Railway attached to the rear, age tanning and foxing exhibited throughout. 11.25"W x 20.5"L, frame is 12.75"W x 22.25"L x .50"D