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Lot 321
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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$700 -
1,000
Price Realized
$480
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Lot Description
BARRY, David F. (1854-1934), photographer. Two cabinet cards of Lakota Chief John Grass. Bismarck, Dakota.
2 cabinet photographs of John Grass taken during the same sitting, each with Barry's Bismarck, Dakota imprint on mount recto and/or verso and applied paper label identifying the subject.
Many think Lakota Chief John Grass was the mastermind behind the victory at the battle of the Little Bighorn. At the death of Sitting Bull he became the principal chief of the Hunkpapa.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.