Hidden Meaning in this print?

[fyrffytr1]

I have had this picture for many years. I was showing it to a friend the other day and that is when I noticed the odd figure in it. With all the action going on he is just standing there. Is it supposed to symbolize something or am I reading too much into it.
Oh yeah, that is not damage on the left side of the mat in the first picture. It is glare off the plastic wrapping.

 

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[villagenut]

Maybe depicting Custer looking over; in hindsight, the nightmare he walked into....although I can't imagine him being the last soldier standing.

 

[jeff of pa]

where's Waldo ?

My guess Custer's last stand also

The Guy with the Funny Hat & the Blue Suits falling fit this one Of Custer



& this one of The Leather Outfit with the Dangley fringes



in this one

 

[Tom_in_CA]

.... or am I reading too much into it. ...

yes

 

[fyrffytr1]

Maybe I should have made myself clearer. I am talking about the figure in the buckskin clothes and grey hat with his back to us as shown in the close up picture. He is just standing there.

 

[jeff of pa]

yea I'd guess that's supposed to be Custer .

maybe shaking in his boots cause he's out of Bud

No Liquid Courage !

 

[dts52]

Hi. JMHO - I don't think that is Custer. Custer is shown holding the pistol and sabre, facing us at an angle, above the figure in the grey hat. I don't think there could have been a more inaccurate portrayal of the battle unless it was one that showed Custer had won. The troopers bodies were spread over a very large area. Wrong tactics and wrong weapons.
HH
dts

 

[tamrock]

Probably thinking Should I stay or should I go now? If I go, there will be trouble and if I stay it will be double.

 

[Mackaydon]

IMO, it's Tom Custer, George's brother, who was also at the Little Big Horn.
Don..........

 

[FreeBirdTim]

Best depiction of Custer was in "Little Big Man". In this scene, Little Big Man tells him to go down and attack because he knows Custer and his men will be slaughtered. Custer thinks he's conning him and decides he should go down there. Big mistake...

 

[Duckshot]

Yep. There's Waldo.

 

[nagant]

Meanwhile the kneeling figure to his right has a bead on Custer, so what side is he on? Never made sense to me either.

 

[Duckshot]

So wait, the Indians are sponsored by Budweiser?

I guess its a picture and not a photograph. Perhaps the artist was thinking Custer was so intent on killing Indians that he turned his back on the rest of us? Its hard to say if the artist had intent or not.

 

[fyrffytr1]

Custer is standing facing us in the middle of the picture with a sabre held over his head. The figure I am talking about in the bottom left facing away from us. Grey hat and dark brown buckskin clothing.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Custer is standing facing us in the middle of the picture with a sabre held over his head. The figure I am talking about in the bottom left facing away from us. Grey hat and dark brown buckskin clothing.

What would it matter ? Are you thinking there's some hidden clue of treasure ? Or ... ?

 

[Red James Cash]

Custer probably blew his own brains out when he realized Custer's luck wasn't with him that day.Though a couple different native Americans claim to have been the one to kill him.I know Custer got a nice short hair cut before leaving on that campaign.The artists didn't do their homework.

 

[Old Bookaroo]

I believe Gen. Custer's younger brother Boston, was with him, as well. Boston was on summer vacation from Harvard College.

Chances are the figure in the foreground is Lonesome Charley Reynolds, a scout.

A print of that painting hung in almost every bar and saloon in the Old West.

There has been interesting speculation about Frank Grouard - also a scout. He was also present at Wounded Knee.


Good luck to all,

The Old Bookaroo

 

[Kray Gelder]

There are stories of one or more white men fighting with the Sioux against Custer. Oglala Sioux war chief He Dog, said a Canadian half breed fought with them. There's another rumor of a white man with an Indian partner, who arrived late to the party, and joined with the Sioux.

 

[jeff of pa]

if there is a "Hidden Meaning" it would Most Likely Have to Be about Budweiser.

Like maybe "Bar Fight !!!!!!!!!"

 

[Worm-Slicer]

Maybe that's a portrayal of the artist. Wouldn't show his face(but maybe the artist intentionally depicted himself this way and in period clothing), but common for that to happen, like the artist saying *PEEK-A-BOO* Rembrandt did that a lot. Sorta like the artist transported himself into the painting and just standing there, studying and observing. Definitely not Custer as he is in the center where the flow of the fighting leads the eye to.