Nov 11, 2011 - Sale 2261

Sale 2261 - Lot 143

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
DESIGNER UNKNOWN CANADIAN PACIFIC / INDIAN DAYS AT BANFF. Circa 1930.
36 1/4x24 inches, 92x61 cm.
Condition A: minor restoration in top right margin.
The gathering of Native peoples in Banff was an annual festival from 1900-1978. The railroad had been promoting the event since at least the 1920s, and here, in a series of photographs, members of the Stoney tribe are depicted in all of their ethnic splendor. Not in Canadian Pacific.