ARTIFACT FROM LITTLE BIG HORN ON AUCTION AT CHRISTIE'S.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: -- Associated Press

NEW YORK -- An engraved brass ledger dug from the Little Big Horn battlefield 117 years after Lt. Col. George Custer and his 7th Cavalry met disaster there was on the auction block Tuesday.

The ledger -- actually a piece of brass kettle, hammered flat and etched with a depiction of American Indians pursuing three fleeing soldiers -- was the centerpiece of Native American items being offered …