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Chief Louison Flatheads Portrait On Leather

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Chief Louison Flatheads Portrait On Leather
Offered in this lot is this hand-carved Leather Portrait of Chief Louison of the Flathead Indian Reservation, after the F. A. Rinehart 1898 photograph. Flathead Chief Louison, was a judge on the Flathead Indian Reservation court was known on the reservation for speaking out against the erosion of customs and traditions. He was also a participant in the U.S. Indian Congress in Omaha, October 1898. Frank Albert Rinehart was an American photographer who captured Native American personalities and scenes, especially portrait settings of leaders and members of the delegations who attended the 1898 Indian Congress in Omaha. The Indian Congress occurred from August 4 to October 31, 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska. Occurring within a decade of the end of the Indian Wars, the Indian Congress was the largest gathering of American Indian tribes of its kind to that date. Over 500 members of 35 different tribes attended, including the Apache medicine man, Geronimo. This leather portrait is in amazingly good preserved condition, edges exhibit brittleness. Measures 7.5"W x 10.25"L