The 17th-century tobacco trade inspired a long and colorful history, which leads us to a discussion of the collectible works of folk art called the cigar store Indian. One of the earliest known ...

Cowles Syndicate Antique cigar store Indians continue to be popular with collectors. This 19th-century figure of an Indian maiden, 68 inches high, sold for $42,550 at Cottone Auctions in March 2014.

Cigar store Indians are life-size tobacco advertising images and were collected widely starting in the late 1920s. By the mid-1900s, the carved and painted cigar store indian became less common ...

Disney has added a plaque to the ground next to the “Cigar Store Indian” statue on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland ...

Even though its period of popularity came to an end a century ago, the “Cigar Store Indian” remains a term that brings a specific image to mind: the life-size, colorful, painted wood figure of ...

One bidder paid $42,550 for a well-documented Indian maiden cigar store figure at a 2014 antiques auction. The hand-carved figure was pictured in the 1970s book, “Treasury of American Design ...

A cigar store Indian prominently located on Las Olas Boulevard, known for being a tourist photo op, might get to stay put despite the city saying it's a code violation.

Cigar store Indians began appearing in the mid-19th century, like barbershop poles and three balls above pawnshops, Goldman says, “because a lot of people couldn’t read, and you wanted to tell ...