Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 15

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Barry, David F. Rain in the Face. Silver print, 13 1/2 x 7 inches, embossed stamp in image reading "Copyright by D.F. Barry", mounted on paper along with small printed caption and embossed "Barry" stamp, mounted in turn on a larger board cropped to 18 x 12 inches, with Barry's illustrated biographical sheet on Chief Rain in the Face mounted on verso; tape remnants on verso of board. Superior, WI, printed after 1905
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Chief Rain in the Face (circa 1835-1905) was one of the leaders of the Lakotas at Little Bighorn; some sources claim that he was the one who personally dispatched George Armstrong Custer. He later became a good friend and favorite subject of the photographer David Barry.