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There are several nuances that set Cowboys and Indians apart from the other portfolios Warhol worked on during his lifetime most notably the amount of substitutions in the image order of the set works that were to be published. Sitting Bull, an image taken from an archival photograph, while printed for the Cowboys and Indians series was not used in the end. It was substituted for Geronimo. Cowboys and Indians was the first portfolio where Warhol combined portraits and objects across 10 large format prints. Most of the source material came from archival and publicity photographs of Native American artifacts. It is thought to be Warhol’s last series in the true sense of the word and it was con...View all