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9" x 12" Full color lithograph of Two Guns, adopted son of Pecunnie Blackfoot Chieftain White Calf, and 3" x 5" Cabinet Card of Chief White Calf whose profile was the model for the Indian Head Nickel. The elder White Calf died in 1903, while a guest of Pr

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9″ x 12″ Full color lithograph of Two Guns, adopted son of Pecunnie Blackfoot Chieftain White Calf, and 3″ x 5″ Cabinet Card of Chief White Calf whose profile was the model for the Indian Head Nickel. The elder White Calf died in 1903, while a guest of President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., after which John “Two Guns” White Calf became the last Chief of the Blackfoot Tribe. He died from the flu at Blackfeet Indian hospital, according to the Choteau Acantha, however the Indian agency reported it was pulmonary tuberculosis that took his life at age 63. John Two Guns White Calf is buried in a Catholic cemetery in Browning, Montana.