Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
MAMMOTH PLATE PHOTOGRAPH OF AN INDIAN DELEGATION (AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Bell, Charles Milton.] Portrait of a Wichita, Apache, Kiowa, and Comanche delegation. Albumen print, 16 x 19 1/2 inches, on early mount, without captions; worn with loss of a 4 x 2 inch area on top edge, not affecting portraits, otherwise only minor wear. [Washington, 1880]
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According to the National Museum of the American Indian, the four delegates are Tsodiako (Wichita); Chief Na-I-Shan (Ta-Ka-I-Tai-Di or White Man Chief, Kiowa-Apache); Stumbling Bear (Set-Imkia or Pushing Bear, Kiowa); and White Horse (Kobi, Comanche). They are wearing suits, and look considerably sharper than the two unidentified white interpreters in the back.