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Lot 238
Sale 6425 - American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography, including The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
Part I - Lots 1-222
Oct 23, 2025
10:00AM ET
Part II - Lots 223-376
Oct 24, 2025
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SHINDLER, Antonio Zeno (1823-1899), photographer. A group of 6 albumen photographs of Yankton Sioux Indians. [Washington, DC, 1867].
6 albumen photographs, approx. 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in., on cream-colored mounts, 14 x 10 3/4 in., unmarked but originally taken in Washington, DC, by Antonio Zeno Shindler in 1867. The sitters are misidentified in period ink below each portrait.
The following portraits are included: Si-ha-han-ska, "Longfoot," a Yankton Sioux brave. -- Wo-a-ki-a-tsi-kan, "Little Thunder," a Yankton Sioux brave. -- Pte-wa-kan-na-gi, "The Medicine Cow," a Yankton Sioux chief. -- Tow-a-hu-ka-sa-no-pa, "Two Lances," a Yankton Sioux chief. -- Ta-tsan-op-ki-an, "Flying Pipe," a head soldier of the Yankton Sioux. -- Wan-mdi-sa-pa, "Black Eagle," a Yankton Sioux brave. (See Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Paul Richardson Fleming, 2003.)
Provenance: Cowan's, American History, 23 June 2011, Lot 297 (partial).
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.