Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 42

Price Realized: $ 210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(AMERICAN INDIANS--PHOTOGRAPHS.) [Gardner, Alexander.] Photograph of Wa-kan-du-ta or Red Thunder, Oglala Sioux. Albumen print, 6 1/2 x 4 inches, on later plain thin mount; no caption or identification, numbered 170 in negative. [Washington, DC, 1870]

Additional Details

One of several portraits taken by Gardner of Sioux delegations as they came to visit Washington in 1872. See negative #3653A at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives.