Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Group of 9 mostly larger-format mounted images. Various sizes and formats, condition generally strong. Various places, circa 1870s-1890s

Additional Details

George Benjamin Wittick, "Inauguration Dance . . . View in Pueblo Laguna, New Mexico," mounted albumen print, 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, Laguna, NM, 12 January 1887.

[Joseph K. Dixon?], uncaptioned image of two figures seated in front of tipi, mounted albumen print, 5 x 7 inches, matted.

D.B. Chase of Santa Fe, NM, "Indian Dancers from San Ildefonso," mounted albumen promenade card, 4 1/4 x 7 inches.

L.B. Shaw of Elmwood, MA, "Cabin Built by the Indian Princesses at Lakeville" (Wampanoags descended from Chief Massasoit), albumen print, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches.

Uncredited image of an outdoor council, possibly Cheyenne in Indian Territory, mounted albumen print, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, mount cracked.

Group of 4 uncredited and uncaptioned images: 3 thought to show Creeks gathered at Okmulgee, Indian Territory in the early 1870s, plus one unidentified portrait, all mounted albumen prints, about 5 1/2 x 8 inches.