[NATIVE AMERICANS]. A group of 11 hand-colored photographs of identified Native American subjects, incl. Red Tomahawk and Medicine Crow.

7 x 10 in., or smaller, hand-colored images, possibly photographic enlargements, printed directly on mounts affixed to thick cardstock, most 11 x 14 in. (very good condition overall). Most with manuscript identifications on mount recto or verso.

Captions include: "Red Tomahawk." Lakota Indian policeman and Sitting Bull's assassin. -- "Mrs. Little Moon, Wakpala So. Dak." -- "Medicine Crow." -- "Two Wives & Medicine Crow, Ft. Thompson." -- "Andrew Ironroad." -- "Mr. & Mrs. White Bull, Cherry Creek, So. Dak." -- "White Bull." -- "Follows the Road." -- "Mr. & Mrs. White Lightning." -- "Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Ironroad, Mr. & Mrs. Bull Bear, Follows the Road, and Bears Heart." A photograph showing some of the same subjects, possibly during the same gathering is copyrighted by "Burdick, 1931," and is held at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum. -- "Sioux Indians at Minnehaha Falls" (faintly penciled on verso).

[With:] 3 images printed directly on mounts, possibly enlargements, including Native American subject identified as "Ree Scout," possible second view of "White Bull," and "Covered Wagon Train near Pierre, S.D."

Property from the Collection of Stanley B. Slocum

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American Historical Ephemera & Photography

[NATIVE AMERICANS]. A group of 11 hand-colored photographs of identified Native American subjects, incl. Red Tomahawk and Medicine Crow.

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