(AMERICAN INDIANS PHOTOGRAPHS) [Bell Charles M] Cabinet car

Sale 2253 - Lot 28

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Bell, Charles M.] Cabinet card portrait of Me-ra-pa-ra-pa or Lance, Mandan. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 4 inches, on original U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey mount; minor flaws in blank area of image. Washington, DC, image date 1874

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Me-ra-pa-ra-pa was a "head soldier or brave, age, 38; height, 5.8 1/2," who was photographed as "part of a joint delegation of Arickarees and Mandans to Washington in 1874" (Jackson, 1877 Descriptive Catalogue, 1005).