(NATIVE AMERICAN) Geronimo

Sale 2393 - Lot 170

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(NATIVE AMERICAN)
Geronimo. Silver print with retouching, 6 7/8x5 inches (17.5x12.7 cm.), with a title, in pencil, on a later mount recto, and with various labels and stamps on a that mount verso. Circa 1900; printed 1920s

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Originally from the Jay Culver Family Collection.

A rare portrait of the prominent leader of the Bedonkohe Apache, who performed such daring feats that the Mexicans singled him out with the sobriquet Geronimo (Spanish for "Jerome"). Some attributed his raiding successes to powers conferred by supernatural beings, including a reputed invulnerability to bullets.