Jun 12, 2025 - Sale 2708

Sale 2708 - Lot 6

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Boorne & May, photographers. Indian Sun Dance: Preparing for the Ordeal. Albumen promenade card photograph, 4¼ x 7½ inches, on photographer's mount; moderate wear including a bit of image loss on upper right edge. Calgary, AB, circa 1887

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The Boorne & May photo studio partnership was formed in Calgary in 1887 and continued through at least 1894. They boasted of Sun Dance photos in the 23 September 1887 Calgary Weekly Herald, perhaps taken at the Assiniboine Reserve sun dance held north of Regina the previous June.