Haynes, F. Jay (1853-1921). A group of 5 cabinet cards of Native American leaders, including Rain-in-the-Face.

Five cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, each with F. Jay Haynes' Fargo, Dakota Territory imprint on verso, ca 1884. All images numbered and titled in negative.

Includes: Rain-in-the-Face, Hunkpapa Lakota, with fur-wrapped braids and a peace metal around his neck. -- Brave Bear, Miniconjou Sioux, a signer of the Fort Laramie Treaty, shown wearing a quilled war shirt and braided hair wrapped in fur. -- Chief White Bull, Miniconjou Sioux, with Crow hairstyle and bone hairpipe breast plate. -- Big Medicine Man, Crow, wearing a patterned cotton shirt, dentalium necklaces, and holding a feather fan. -- War Eagle, Sioux, in full dress wearing a split cow horn and eagle feather headdress, war shirt, and holding a Catlinite pipe.

Provenance: Cowan's, American Indian and Wester Art, 30 March 2007, Lot 401.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Images with pin hole in upper margin. Most with toning and occasional soiling. Edge and corner wear to mounts.

Big Medicine Man with light ink marks/smudges on image.

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Haynes, F. Jay (1853-1921). A group of 5 cabinet cards of Native American leaders, including Rain-in-the-Face.

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