Apr 15, 2021 - Sale 2564

Sale 2564 - Lot 138

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Portrait of Shawnasee, a Potawatomi leader. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches, on original plain mount, captioned in manuscript on verso "Shawnasee, Chief of the Pottawotamie Indians"; minor soiling to mount, minimal wear, negative overexposed in lower left corner. Holton, KS, 1898
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Shawnasee was a leader of the Prairie Band Potawatomi, whose reservation is located a few miles north of Topeka, KS. This studio portrait was taken in Holton, just north of the reservation.