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Lot 656

Sale 960 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Nov 15, 2021 11:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$300 - 500
Price Realized
$313
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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[NATIVE AMERICANS]. Cabinet card portrait of an elderly Sioux subject. Glendive, MT: A.S. Foss, n.d.


4 x 5 1/2 in. albumen photograph on cardstock mount (some spotting and soiling throughout, with wear to corners). Foss's imprint blindstamped on mount recto. The subject, who bears some resemblance to Lakota Chief Red Cloud, appears to be sitting in profile and leaning backward with his eyes closed. He wears a feather bustle and bells attached to a leather strap along his torso.

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