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Lot 90

Sale 6485 - Native American Art
Apr 10, 2026 9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,000 - 4,000

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Antonio Zeno Shindler
(Bulgarian, 1823-1899)
Sioux Chiefs, Washington, DC, 1867
albumen photographs

six 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. albumen photographs on 14 x 10 3/4 in. cream-colored mounts, unmarked but originally taken in Washington, DC, by Antonio Zeno Shindler. The sitters are misidentified in ink below each portrait.

Includes the following portraits taken in 1867: Ma-za-o-ya-ti, "Iron Nation," a Brule Chief. -- Ta-ta-ka-wa-kan, "Sacred Bull," a Brule chief. -- Pte-wa-kan-na-gi, "The Medicine Cow," a Yankton Sioux chief. -- To-kan-was-te, "The Pretty Rock," son of a Yankton Sioux chief. -- Ma-to-ho-kan-tan-ke, "The Bear with the Big Voice," a Two-Kettle Sioux chief. -- Se-tan-si-tan, "Yellow Hawk," a Sans Arc chief.

(See Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Paula Richardson Fleming, 2003)

The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography

This lot is located in Chicago.

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