Antique Sitting Bull Indian single bookend Kathodian Bronze Work KBW bronze clad

Description

"Sitting Bull" is the title for this single bookend.  He was the leader of the Sioux who massacred Custer's troop at Little Bighorn in 1876.  He later joined Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show which toured into the first decade of the new 20th century, and so became forever an integral part of the popular culture of the American West.
I don't know who the artist was but I believe at least the features were modeled on those of the real Sitting Bull.  There are many photographs of him so you can make your own comparison.
What makes this piece special is the added image of the face of a Native American chief on the back.  Kathodian Bronze Works often did that, adding interesting images to the backs even though they would be hidden up against books.  I have listed an elk head set by KWB that has on the back a wonderfully rendered image of an elk grazing on the leaves of a tree.
Bronze-clad, a manufacturing process by which a skin of bronze was deposited on a plaster form through electro-plating.  A handful of companies used this method in the early 1900s to make decorative household objects that had the look, feel, and heft of solid bronze yet were affordable by the middle class.
One of those companies was Kathodian Bronze Works (KBW) operating in NYC in the 19-teens.  These do not have the "KBW" and "ArtBronz" marks on the back as I've come to expect on their pieces.  Instead, there is a mark of some sort which I cannot decipher (either the letters are too small or they are just designs, not letters) with the copyright symbol in the center.  Circa 1917.
But the set does appear in a Kathodian Bronze catalogue as I show in my last pic.  I recently had a buffalo set that was similar...no KBW mark but shown in the catalogue.  I am saying 1917 as I know for a fact that Kathodian Bronze Works copyrighted several of their designs for "book rocks" (that was their term for what we call bookends) in that year.  And they then went out of business a few years later.
Condition is great.  The only issue is its finish is worn with age, not surprising for a piece that is 100 years old.  It sits flat and stable.
7 1/4 inches tall; base is 4 inches side to side X 4 1/2 inches front to back.  Heavy at 3 1/2 pounds.
Perfect gift for the collector of things with Native American theme.
US shipping only.   USPS priority.  I pack with care.