Antonio Zeno Shindler

(Bulgarian, 1823-1899)

Studio Portraits of Otoe and Sioux Leaders in Washington, DC.

albumen photographs

six albumen photographs, most originally produced by Antonio Zeno Shindler unless otherwise noted, ranging in size from 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 in. to 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., on cream-colored mounts, 14 x 11 in. The sitters are misidentified in ink below each portrait.

The following portraits are included: Wa-in-ga, "Pipe Stem," a young Otoe chief. -- Da-nu-wa-in-ga, "Little Pipe," a young Otoe chief. -- Tshe-oang-eh-ki-hi, "Buffalo Chief," an Otoe chief. -- A group shot of Tshe-oang-eh-ki-hi, "Buffalo Chief," an Otoe Chief, dressed in clothes probably purchased for his role as member of the delegation, at left, Chun-eh-hoe, "Medicine Horse," an Otoe Chief, at center, and B. Barnabi, a half-breed US Indian Interpreter, at right. -- He-ka-ka Nang-zhe, "The Standing Elk," a Yankton Sioux warrior, taken by McClees Gallery, Washington, between December 1857-April 1858. -- Red Plume, a chief of the Black Feet Indians. Shindler copied this from an original daguerreotype by John H. Fitzgibbon, St. Louis, MO, 1851-1852.

(See Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Paula Richardson Fleming, 2003)

The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

This lot is located in Chicago.

Cowan's American History, 23 June 2011, Lot 298 (partial).

Prints overall very good. Occasional spotting to mounts.

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