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163R. TOM GILLEON Nine Pipesoil30 x 30 inches$28,000–34,000Bitteroot Salish Chief, Joseph Nine Pipes, was renowned throughout his youth and manhood as an exceptional warrior and bu alo hunter—cardinal virtues among the nomadic plains tribes. is portrait captures Chief Joseph Nine Pipes in old age. In simple side pro le, the subject addresses not the audience, but the memory of a world long gone. Everything here is still and silent. But even as the dampening past settles over his shoulders, the old chief ’s face glows with an internal re—a resilient ember within the ash.R. Tom Gilleon