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Lot 251
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
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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GARDNER, Alexander (1821-1882), photographer. Albumen photograph of Slow Bull, Ta-Tan-Kah Hun-Ki-Sh-Neh. Washington, DC.
5 1/4 x 4 in. albumen photograph, tipped on ornately scrolled Blackmore Museum mount, 12 x 10 in., ca 1870. A studio portrait of Slow Bull, aka Ta-Tan-Kah Hun-Ki-Sh-Neh, with feathers in his hair, wearing a hide warrior shirt, a neck tie and a bone breast plate. Lower margin of mount with credit to A. Gardner, Washington, DC, and imprint, "Photographed by Trustees of Blackmore Museum, Salisbury, England."
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography