Cigar store Indian statue headed to Walla Walla museum

(News Tribune) The Scout that stood for decades by the front door of Lutcher's Store in Walla Walla won't be leaving the city.
The 6-foot-tall wooden Indian statue, affectionately nicknamed Chief Smoke by Walla Walla residents, was put up for auction by the Small family after the death of Theodore B. Small, a longtime Walla Walla resident. Small and his wife, Gerry, bought the statue from the Lutchers around 2004.
The statue -- actually an antique advertising sign -- is very collectable for two reasons. Continued

Photo: Cigar store Indian, Manchester, New Hampshire, 1936 (Carl Mydans/Library of Congress).