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Lot 275
Sale 6356 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Lots Open
Jun 18, 2025
Lots Close
Jul 2, 2025
Timed Online / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 -
400
Price Realized
$488
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Lot Description
[NATIVE AMERICANS]. 2 stereoviews of Chippewa Indians by CASWELL, WHITNEY and ZIMMERMAN.
Group of Chippewa Indians. Duluth, MN: Wm. Caswell & Co., ca 1870-1880. Stereoview on cardstock mount. Verso with Wm. Caswell's "Lake Superior Scenery - North Shore" imprint and title. Studio group portrait of six unidentified Ojibwa Indian men posing before illustrated backdrop wearing mixtures of western and traditional clothing including blankets, otter fur hair wraps and hair feathers. One man holds a butcher knife while another holds hatchet. Note the sleeping dog in the foreground. -- To Keep the Net up. Chippewa Chief. St. Paul, MN: Whitney & Zimmerman, n.d. Stereoview on cardstock mount. Verso with Whitney and Zimmerman's imprint and title. Studio portrait of "To Keep the Net up" (also known as O-kun-de-kun), seated with butcher knife in hand, wearing a wool blanket, skunk skin armband, sash worn over shoulder, and hair ornaments. -- Together, 2 stereoviews.
Estate of David O'Reilly, Old Bridge, New Jersey
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