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Lot 326
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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$1,500 -
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$1,680
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Lot Description
KELLY, R.L. (1851-1934), photog. A group of 5 cabinet cards of Native American subjects, incl. Spotted Eagle. Pierre, South Dakota, ca 1880s.
5 cabinet photographs on cardstock mounts, each with R.L. Kelly's Pierre, South Dakota imprint, ca 1880s. Some subjects identified in the negative.
Includes: Spotted Eagle, Lakota, holding a tacked three-bladed knife club. Research suggests that Spotted Eagle participated in Little Bighorn. -- Little Bull, Cheyenne. -- Three Sioux men. -- Young Sioux female subject wearing a beaded dentalium shell shirt and long dentalium shell and leather earrings, richly toned. -- House in Pierre [South Dakota].
Together, 5 cabinet photographs by R.L. Kelly, a Canadian native who studied photography and operated a studio in Hamilton, Ontario, before moving to Pierre, Dakota Territory, to open a studio in 1881.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Cincinnati.