Big Indian / Big Brave

A circus-carnival themed pinball playfield seen under a glass top, dominated by a hot pink, orange and cream palette. The upper third is a dense cluster of plastics and ramps: a curved arch of small rectangular card-like panels across the very top, a row of five star-topped posts under a pink banner reading 500 POINTS WHEN ADD BONUS, two large white circular discs printed 100 with MORE across the middle of each, and a wheel-and-spinner assembly on the right beside a yellow 500 POINTS flag. The centre of the playfield carries a large painted head of a ringmaster or clown: a pale face with heavy dark brows, a broad nose, dark hair, and a spiked radiating crown or headdress behind the head, flanked by fan-shaped feather motifs. Below the face a symmetrical ladder of feather-shaped value banners runs up the centreline, reading 4,000, 5,000, 6,000, 7,000, 8,000 and 9,000 in black numerals on cream, with larger 300,000, 400,000 and 500,000 banners higher up. Blue rectangular instruction panels on both sides read 100 POINTS AND 500 POINTS AND ADD BONUS. A red maker's plate on the left of centre reads D. Gottlieb & Co in white script. The lower playfield opens into a broad orange and red apron area.

A photographed mid-1950s electro-mechanical playfield seen from above through dusty glass, with the white metal apron at the bottom of frame. The lower two-thirds is printed in a warm orange-to-yellow wash, edged by a turquoise-green border and a red outer field. Mirrored standup lanes and targets sit either side, above triangular panels showing a stoic Native American man in a full feathered war bonnet, facing inwards. The upper playfield is crowded with metal: a bare wire ramp arcs down the right side, two large cream circular dials marked 10 sit side by side, a row of upright lettered target lanes crosses the top, and a large painted chief in a spreading feather headdress fills the upper centre beneath an arc of large red-outlined title lettering. The apron carries an instruction card, a red arrow decal pointing to the side flipper buttons, a blue-bordered replay card, and a script company signature and address.

A wide, brightly coloured backglass with a flat cartoon/graphic-novel illustration style. Centre: a large grinning Native American chief shown full-length, striding and facing the viewer, bare-chested with red-and-black body paint stripes on his arms, wearing a white-feathered war bonnet, beaded headband, a long beaded necklace with a round blue medallion, a decorated loincloth with red, green and yellow zigzag trim, and a bare yellow leg with a beaded anklet. He raises one fist overhead and grips a long yellow-tipped spear in his other hand, with a feathered bustle at his hip. Background is a deep blue sky with a white cloud band and a huge red-and-teal spiral pinwheel radiating from upper left, plus orange and yellow teepee tents on a brown ground. Left of centre: a group of six dancing, feather-crowned, loinclothed figures with painted faces and arms raised. Right: a teal circular badge, a campfire with smoke, and small figures. Lettering: a white script 'Gottlieb's' with tiny 'CHICAGO' beneath, above a huge block title 'BIG BRAVE' in orange-and-yellow rock-textured letters with white and black outlines. Two five-window mechanical score reels sit in dark boxes at top left and top right.

Illuminated backglass panel with a dark navy-blue sky background and a big rainbow of curved red, yellow and green bands sweeping across the upper left. Four cream/tan mechanical score windows with black digits are set into the panel - two across the top (players 1 and 2, each flagged with a red arrow-shaped number plaque) and two lower down (players 3 and 4, marked the same way). Between the top pair runs the slogan A GAME OF SKILL in white capitals. The title occupies the left-centre: Gottlieb's in flowing script with 4 PLAYER beneath it, and below that the main name in huge block capitals, orange-red with a yellow and cream outline, stacked on two lines and slanted. Filling the right half is a large painted figure of a Native American man in profile facing left, bare-chested with orange-tan skin and a grinning open-mouthed expression, wearing a full feathered war bonnet, beaded ear and nose ornaments, a beaded chest band, a fringed loincloth and arm bands, with a long pipe or staff held across his body. Left of him, lower down, is a smaller mounted warrior figure and a cluster of tepees; on the right edge a tipi and standing figures. BALL IN PLAY appears in orange italics on the right. Along the bottom is PLAYERS 1 2 3 4 / CAN PLAY AT THE SAME TIME! in red block lettering. The painted style is bold airbrushed mid-1970s artwork with heavy black outlines and flat saturated colour; the glass reflects red and blue lamps from the room.