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Lot 125

Sale 6485 - Native American Art
Apr 10, 2026 9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$800 - 1,200

Lot Description

ca 1880
Mammoth Plate Albumen Photograph of the Sisseton Yanktonai Delegation
albumen photograph

16 x 20 in. albumen photograph (including margins) on cardstock mount. A studio portrait of six men believed to represent the Sisseton Yanktonai delegation in Washington, DC, in 1880. Photographer unknown.

Subjects tentatively identified as follows (from left to right): Left Hand; Wears a Tail (aka Man with the Tail or With Tail), Lower Yanktonai; Drifting Goose (aka Drifting as Snow), Yanktonai; Charles Crissey, Indian Agent (standing); Gabriel Renville, Sisseton; and Smiley Sheppard (aka Red in the Face), Sisseton.

(Information obtained from www.American-Tribes.com)

The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

This lot is located in Chicago.

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