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Lot 120
Sale 6485 - Native American Art
Apr 10, 2026
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Lot Description
Charles M. Bell AND Mathew Brady
three boudoir photographs on cardstock mounts, each subject identified in period hand on mount below image. Versos with pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts.
Subjects include:
Little Wound, Oglala Lakota chief, incorrectly identified as "American Horse, Sioux Chief" in lower margin. Verso with additional notation. Uncredited, but attributed to Charles Milton Bell.
American Horse, Oglala Sioux chief, incorrectly identified as "Little Wound, Oglala Sioux Chief." Verso with additional period identification. Uncredited, but attributed to Charles Milton Bell.
Big Snake, Ponca Chief. Verso with additional notation indicating that Big Snake was "killed by an Army officer". Uncredited, but attributed to the studio of Mathew Brady.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
(American, 1848-1893 / 1822-1896)
Sioux and Ponca Chiefs, including Little Wound, American Horse, and Big Snake
albumen boudoir photographs
three boudoir photographs on cardstock mounts, each subject identified in period hand on mount below image. Versos with pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts.
Subjects include:
Little Wound, Oglala Lakota chief, incorrectly identified as "American Horse, Sioux Chief" in lower margin. Verso with additional notation. Uncredited, but attributed to Charles Milton Bell.
American Horse, Oglala Sioux chief, incorrectly identified as "Little Wound, Oglala Sioux Chief." Verso with additional period identification. Uncredited, but attributed to Charles Milton Bell.
Big Snake, Ponca Chief. Verso with additional notation indicating that Big Snake was "killed by an Army officer". Uncredited, but attributed to the studio of Mathew Brady.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography