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Lot 253
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 Bull's Ghost, Lower Yanktonai. [Washington, DC, 1872].
5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. albumen photograph on 11 x 14 in. Hayden Survey mount with credit to W. H. Jackson below image. Numbered "277" in the negative and identified in pencil on verso.
An intimate studio profile portrait of Lower Yanktonai leader, Bull's Ghost, originally taken by Alexander Gardner in 1872. Bull's Ghost served as Sitting Bull's mouthpiece in the Ghost Dance exercises. Having only one eye, he was purportedly called "One Eyed Riley" by whites. (See McLaughlin, James. My Friend the Indian, 203).
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.