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BY'S10 AMERICAN HISTORY
TOP BID
Deadline Artist $362,
A first edition lithograph of Paul Revere’s depiction of the Boston
Massacre sold at Sotheby’s for nearly twice the estimated price. Re-
vere, an engraver before becoming a silversmith, published prints of
the March 5, 1770, battle a week ahead of competitors. Goaded by
taunts from locals, British troops had fired upon a crowd. Among
the dead—and shown lying on the street—was African American
stevedore Crispus Attucks, one of the first two casualties of the
American Revolution. Titled “The Bloody Massacre,” the print in-
cludes a verse that opens “Unhappy Boston, see thy sons deplore,
thy hallow’d walks besmeared with guiltless gore.”
Artworks of the Acoma of Sky City—a
1,000-year-old village atop a bluff west of Albu-
querque, New Mexico—have been returned to the tribe, the Associated Press reports.
For years, tribal officials have been seeking return of items held at auction houses,
museums, and art galleries worldwide. A sacred shield in Paris has been a particular
focus. While that item has not yet been returned, the Acoma are celebrating the return
of several items from a gallery in Montana. A September Government Accountability
Office report described the challenge: no federal law regulates export of tribal cultural
items, complicating the task of proving they were obtained illegally. To gauge the prob-
lem, the agency surveyed auctions 2012-17. Items from the American Southwest over-
whelmingly dominated sales of Native American objects in overseas auctions.
Pueblo Prevails
New Old Name
A 13,000-foot crag in eastern Nevada’ s Great Basin National Park now called Jeff Davis, left, likely will regain
Shoshone name Doso Doyabi, “white mountain.” The Nevada Board of Geographic Names made the recommen-
dation in January to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, supported by local Shoshone.