Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 17

Price Realized: $ 625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Heyn, [Herman.] Kills on Horseback, Ogallala Sioux. Hand-colored platinum print, 9 x 7 inches; numbered 261 in negative; spot-mounted on original heavy paper, with minor wear and fading to mount. Omaha, NE, 1899

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Kills on Horseback was brother-in-law to the great Sioux chief Spotted Tail, and was a witness to Spotted Tail's murder by a fellow Sioux in 1881.