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Lot 83
Sale 6485 - Native American Art
Apr 10, 2026
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$600 -
800
Lot Description
William S. Soule
7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. albumen photograph on 12 x 10 in. mount with period notation at lower right, "Satanta's Daughter and Husband." A studio portrait of Eonah-pah, or Trailing-the-Enemy, and wife, Satanta's daughter, unmarked but taken by William Soule, ca 1869.
Trailing the Enemy, a prominent Kiowa warrior, was a guest in the Washita River camp of the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle when it was attacked at dawn on November 28, 1868, by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
Amid the assault, about thirty women and children fled along the river bottom, protected by Trailing the Enemy with bow and arrows, the elderly chief Little Rock with a single-shot fusil, and a teenage boy. Major Joel Elliott led a detachment in pursuit; Little Rock was killed and several women wounded before Arapaho reinforcements arrived, surrounding and destroying Elliott’s command.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Chicago.
(1836-1908)
Kiowa Brave Eonah-pah and Wife, the Daughter of Chief Satanta. Fort Sill, Indian Territory, ca 1869
albumen photograph
7 1/4 x 5 1/2 in. albumen photograph on 12 x 10 in. mount with period notation at lower right, "Satanta's Daughter and Husband." A studio portrait of Eonah-pah, or Trailing-the-Enemy, and wife, Satanta's daughter, unmarked but taken by William Soule, ca 1869.
Trailing the Enemy, a prominent Kiowa warrior, was a guest in the Washita River camp of the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle when it was attacked at dawn on November 28, 1868, by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.
Amid the assault, about thirty women and children fled along the river bottom, protected by Trailing the Enemy with bow and arrows, the elderly chief Little Rock with a single-shot fusil, and a teenage boy. Major Joel Elliott led a detachment in pursuit; Little Rock was killed and several women wounded before Arapaho reinforcements arrived, surrounding and destroying Elliott’s command.
The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography
This lot is located in Chicago.
