An elk-skin jacket and a 7th Cavalry footlocker owned and used by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer were the two top-earning lots at Heritage Auctions’ Sept. 13 William and Joey Ridenour Ethnographic Art, Western Memorabilia, & Antique Firearms Signature® Auction. Along with a wide variety of Indigenous artifacts dating from Pre-Columbian time to the present, the assortment of items from the collection of the Scottsdale, Arizona couple included several items relating to the leader of the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment forces defeated June 25-26, 1876, by a coalition of Lakota, Dakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana Territory. An elk skin jacket that has been described as a gift from the Cheyenne to Custer sold for $52,500 including the buyer’s premium, making it the top lot of the auction. It was among many Custer possessions put into storage at West Point after the disastrous Little Bighorn