Pawnees and Cheyennes III by lookoo
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Description
This is a more realistic depiction of what would happen when a Cheyenne and a Pawnee warrior got really close. It's the old story of bringing a tomahawk to a gunfight... ;)
Firearms are the biggest equalizer the history of human conflict has produced so far. Even more so than the bow and the arrow, the gun nullifies the advantage of the tall over the smaller, the stronger over the weaker, of a man over a woman. The fact that a man has on average more muscles and a wider reach with his arms - the gun makes all this almost meaningless in a face-to-face struggle.
Cheyenne woman warriors came to appreciate revolvers. We know that Muts-i-mi-u-na (Buffal Calf Road Woman), a Cheyenne woman warrior of Rosebud and Little Bighorn fame, fought with one, and she surely wasn't the only one.
The one used here by Eagle Road Woman is a 1851 Navy Colt revolver. She wisely holds it with both hands to better aim and handle the recoil. It's stopping power is comparable to a modern 9 mm Browning. Surely stopped this enemy in his tracks!
Comments (10)
Greywolf44
Really cool 3 view image. Some very interesting facts about female Indian warriors. I like.
lookoo
Glad you liked it!
T.Rex
Man, he quickly got an unexpected flying lesson! I recall having a long time ago read something about the women's preference for the pistol over the rifle. It's lighter and more manageable in close quarters. Nice job showing the same image from different camera angles. Looks like a killing head wound. Or a life long headache? Keep up the good work! :-)
lookoo
Always a pleasure, thanks!
GrandmaT
Excellent work! The poses are great and the effects very well done.
lookoo
The advantage of 3D - easily rendering something from different angles, I just had to use it. ;)
daggerwilldo
Wonderful render. I like that you rendered her knowing what she is doing. Good two hand grip, got that sight picture, and all while facing down a tomahawk coming your way. She would be hell on wheels with a M4.
lookoo
You bet she is! ;) https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/?image_id=2654312
Davidvantol
Awesome Work!
Richardphotos
there are Pawnees where I am from, even a town named Pawnee. great poses and characters
lookoo
Thanks! I have to say that I feel a bit guilty for beating this dead the-Pawnees-are-bad horse which Kevin Costner already rode to death 25 years ago. From an objective POV the Pawnees combined a sedentary lifestyle on the edge of the prairie with being a formidable horse culture. Unfortunately for them, they got under big pressure from encroaching nomadic tribes like the Cheyennes and Lakota who became their mortal enemies. Contrary to the "bad Injun" meme of Dances with Wolves, the Pawnee sought accomodation with the whites, ceded most of their lands under white pressure and then, enlisted as Army scouts and issued with repeating rifles, gave the Cheyennes and Lakota some real hell. From a Cheyenne POV, though, hating the guts of the Pawnee was therefore a no-brainer. Intrerestingly, siding with the whites didn't save the Pawnees either. They were eventually pressured to abandon their homeland altogether, were "removed" to Oklahoma, died like fleas from white man diseases... contrary to the Cheyennes and Lakota they don't have a square foot of their traditional land anymore and have also lost their language. And adding insult to injury, they even have a bad press after everything. Yup, feeling guilty now...
Cyve
Fantastic scene and composition.
rajib
Wonderful posing and POV.