The lot features four Indian hide and carved wood drum beaters / pounders from circa 1910 Little Crow Dakota Sioux from the ex-C.M. Russell Museum Great Falls, Montana and John Kleinschmidt collections / O’Dell collections. The piece is marked “Little Crow” in ink faintly on the handle of two of the beaters, the very same such mark as was on the 1910 Little Crow Dakota Sioux Stone War club also from the C.M. Russell Kleinschmidt collection which sold by NAAC in January 2025 for $1,024 (shown w/ bp). Two original C.M. Russell Museum tags are still present (the same tag from all of the museum displayed items) marked “1396-87 O’DELL”. Little Crow, Mdewakanton Dakota Sioux, was the descendant of Little Crow the war chief who was a leader of the Dakota in a five-week war against the United States in 1862, also known as the Dakota War of 1862, Sioux War, Sioux Uprising or Little Crow’s War. The set exhibits Indian tanned hide stuffed beater / pounder heads with at least two exhibiting sinew sewing with hide lacing ties, hide fringes and carved wood stems. One stem shows a red ocher / mineral pigment painted finish with carved grip, another a darkened yellow patina, another showing the gripping area with the bark still present and Indian tie on the bottom. Two are marked on the stem, “Little Crow” as well as two have the museum tags, all came from the C.M. Russell Museum collection and were displayed with the drum, also signed Little Crow and dated 1910. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. Catherine A. O'Dell. The longest is about 19.5-inches and the shortest 12.5-inches. A copy of the C.M. Russell Museum paperwork can be available at request. The piece is sold directly from the O’Dell family, who are directly related to Kleinschmidt.