16 x 19 in. albumen photograph on 17 x 20 in. mount, recording the Lakota delegation of Spotted Tail in Washington, DC in 1880, taken by Charles M. Bell. Pictured front row, left to right, is Black Crow, Iron Wing, Spotted Tail, Coarse Voice or Struck by the Ree, and White Thunder. Pictured back row, from left to right, is Agent Pollock or Major Andrus and Louis Roubedeaux (interpreter).

In May of 1880, a large number of Sioux Indian chiefs, representing most of the tribes of that nation, visited both Washington, DC and the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. During their trip to Washington, the chiefs expected to make an agreement granting the right of way across their reservation to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, as well as the Chicago & Northwestern Railway companies, for a line from the terminus of these roads on the Missouri River to the Black Hills. At Carlisle, they would pay a visit to the Sioux Indian children that attended the school. (Information obtained from American-Tribes.com.)

Provenance: American Indian Photography Collection of John W. Painter (1929-2008); Cowan's, American History, 15 November 2019, Lot 402.