Dec 01, 2011 - Sale 2263

Sale 2263 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Rinehart, Frank A. White Swan, Crow. Platinum print, 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; top corners clipped, early repair in negative in lower left; numbered 815 in negative. Omaha, NE, 1898

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White Swan had served at Little Bighorn, where he was wounded as a scout in Major Reno's detachment. By some accounts, he killed a deserter during the heat of battle after Reno had ordered the man to halt.