Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 510
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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) Soule, William S. Cabinet card portrait of Ho-wear or Gap in the Woods, Comanche. Albumen print, 5 1/2 x 4 inches, on original mount with photographer's backmark; manuscript caption ("How-ee-ah") on mount recto, longer pencil caption on verso, minor wear. Fort Sill, OK, circa 1874
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The caption on verso reads "Out of pure kindness with the consent of his wife, who had a lingering illness, he ended her sufferings, but was thought to be insane, as his face shows." Corroboration of this story cannot be found, and it may be a first-hand anecdote. Gap in the Woods was a signer of the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. Belous, page 103, describes the sitter only as "Ho-wear, a Yapparika Comanche chief, frequently at Fort Sill in the 1870s."