An American Indian by Lucien Gaillard, Silver Walking stick, France ca. 1900

The Indian craze was a political-cultural movement in American history, that took place between 1890 and 1915, consisting of exalting the artistic-cultural values of the different native groups to try to incorporate them within the nation and in this way understand the role of Native Americans in modernist culture.

The crook handle is 9 cm high x 25 cm to the side x 3 cm wide. It is beautifully fashioned in the form of an American Indian with long earrings, a scarf and a head band with diamonds, oval stones and very long feathers. It is on top of a Rosewood shaft, there is a bimetal ferule. The O.L is 90 cm. Without chips or cracks, it has minimal traces of use and the condition is perfect. 

It is a wonderful ethnographic figural portrait that deserves to be identified, made during their American Indian craze of the 1890’s.

This cane has a very dynamic design, it fits perfect, is a very wearable cane.

Lucien Gaillard,  Paris 1861 - 1942 was a French goldsmith and jeweler, who worked in the art nouveau style. He won a prize for his jewelry at the 1889 Universal Exposition. He was also a judge at the 1893 Universal Exposition in Chicago.