Native American Art

four cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, each printed ca 1880s-1890s. The subjects, which are identified on applied paper labels or period script, include:

"Crow," with manuscript identification, "Chief / Oncpapa Sioux." Verso with D.F. Barry's Bismarck, D.T. imprint and pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts. Also called Pispisa Ho Waste (Good Voice Prairie Dog), Chief Crow is shown wearing two arrows in his hair. Chief Crow was one of the leaders at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He is said to have been shot twice with arrows, which he pulled through and did not break off thus giving him the honor of wearing the eagle quills.

two portraits of "Long Dog." The first, a seated view of Long Dog identified on applied paper label, with D.F. Barry's Bismarck, D.T. imprint on verso. The second, a close-up view with manuscript identification and D.F. Barry's West Superior, Wisconsin imprint on mount recto and verso. Long Dog, also identified as "Goose," fought against Custer's immediate command 25 June 1876. He lived in the Wood Mountain area of ​​Saskatchewan after Little Bighorn and later surrendered to US military authorities with Crow King's band at Fort Buford. 

"Goose," as identified on verso, unmarked but attributed to O.S. Goff. A waist-length, seated portrait of Sioux scout Goose, who was reportedly wounded in the hand by a 7th Cavalry trooper at the Battle of Little Bighorn.