Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Group of 33 photographs of American Indians in Canada. Various sizes and conditions, each with inked stamps of collector Maurice Dêremaux on verso, some with additional captions or stamps from Canadian National Railways. Vp, most circa 1930s?

Additional Details

Group of 5 images of American Indian women at work in an institution Boy Scouts at the Coqualeetza Residential School in British Columbia Pair of images from the Pas Dog Derby and Winter Carnival "Indian Scraping Moose Skin with Stone Scraper" "Birch Bark Hut at Creek des Prairies" "Lumberjacks, Restigouche River, New Brunswick" 22 additional photographs, most not captioned, but with similar content.
with--a group of clippings and copy prints relating to Buffalo Bill from Dêremaux's collection and a French program for the Wild West Rodeo du Colonel Cy Compton, featuring an ostrich-drawn carriage, circa 1924.