Sep 15, 2011 - Sale 2253

Sale 2253 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Soule, William S.] Cabinet photograph of the Kiowa warrior Big Bow. Albumen photograph, 5 3/4 x 4 inches, on later plain mount. [Fort Sill, OK, 1870s]
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Thomas Battey wrote that Big Bow "has probably killed and scalped more white people than any other living Kiowa" (Life among the Indians, in The Friend, 25 September 1875). Belous and Weinstein, Will Soule, page 25 (variant image).