Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 27

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"ONLY SURVIVOR OF CUSTER FIGHT" (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Barry, David F. Photograph of Curley. Albumen photograph, 8 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, on original card mount, with inked "Curley" stamp on photograph and embossed "Barry" stamps on photograph and mount; captioned on verso "Custer's scout and only survivor of Custer fight," apparently in Barry's hand. Np, nd

Additional Details

Curley was a Crow employed by Custer as a scout at the Battle of Little Bighorn. As a scout, he did not participate actively in the battle, and escaped by disguising himself as a Sioux. Barry photographed him circa 1877, about a year after the fight.