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FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATIVE AMERICANSAmerican,

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,200.00 USD
FIVE PHOTOGRAPHS OF NATIVE AMERICANSAmerican,
<B>OGLALA LAKOTA, PINE RIDGE, S.D., FOUR PHOTOS</B></I><BR><B><BR></B></I>c. 1895 - 1908<B><BR></B></I> <BR>(1) Unidentified Oglala Lakota Chief, c. 1895. Silver gelatin print mounted on board by Eason Brothers, Chadron, Nebraska. Ink inscription, verso: "Chief Little Wound---Sioux" is erroneous. Immaculate print showing this elderly Oglala leader wearing a headdress of feathers of golden eagle and red-tailed hawk, and buffalo horns. His leather jacket, probably painted with yellow-ocher, is embroidered with figures of eagles, stars and American flags.<BR><BR>(2) Stinking Bear and Paints His Horse, 1896. Silver gelatin print, mounted on board. Photo not credited, but probably by John C. H. Grabill, Hot Springs, S.D. Caption printed in negative at lower left. Minor paper loss to back of board, not affecting the image. Both chiefs wear eagle feather headdresses and hold stone-headed war clubs. Paints His Horse carries a large, decorated pipe from which is suspended an ornate tobacco bag. He traveled widely with <I>Buffalo Bill’s Wild West</B></I> show, in Europe as well as the United States. <BR><BR>(3) Low Cedar (<I>Hante Kucela</B></I>), 1908. Silver gelatin print, signed in the negative at lower left by J.A. Johnson. Low Cedar was a performer with the Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill joint-production, which combined in 1908. Here at the age of fifteen or sixteen he wears a long breastplate of bone hairpipes over a beaded vest and cotton shirt. Four stripped quills tipped with eagle fluffs adorn his hair. A profile portrait, about the same time, is in Lot 77390. <BR><BR>(4) Black Cloud, tribe unknown, probably northeastern, 1895. Silver gelatin print on board, with imprint of “J.F. Mc Carty, Greenville, Penna.” Ink inscription, verso: “Black Cloud, 1895.” Almost certainly a graduate of the Carlisle Indian School, Black Cloud is posed with his brass cornet. <I><BR><BR>Dimensions: ranging from 4 x 5 ¾ inches to 7 x 9 inches<BR></B></I><BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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