Oct 21, 2008 - Sale 2158

Sale 2158 - Lot 45

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
THROSSEL, RICHARD (1882-1933)
Crow Indians on horseback. Silver print, 6x8 inches (15.2x20.3 cm.), affixed to the original mount, with Throssel's signature and date, in pencil, and his embossed amphora-shaped seal on mount recto, with the numbers "6838" and "1907" on print recto; in the original frame. 1913

Additional Details

Born of French Canadian Cree Indian descent, Throssel was adopted by the Crow Tribe in 1905 and given the name Esh Quon Dupahs ("Killed Inside the Camp"). His photographs are housed at the American Heritage Center of the University of Wyoming.