Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 22

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Rinehart, Frank A. Freckled Face, Arapahoe. Platinum print, 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, mounted along top edge on original stiff paper; cropped to margin on lower edge, mount paper slightly chipped on left edge; captioned, numbered 1113, and signed in negative. Omaha, NE, 1898

Additional Details

This portrait of Freckled Face was one of Rinehart's favorites, and was one of 46 featured in his 1899 book, Rinehart's Indians, where he noted that her jacket was "trimmed with nearly three hundred elk teeth." She was also known as Hannah Little Bird.