Image Lot Price Description

2169
$402.50

LOT OF SIX NATIVE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS. This lot contains three orig and three copy photographs of American Indians. 1) Carl Moon photo “Hill Country – Taos Hunter” also titled “The Hunter On the Hill” and illus. in Carl Moon’s book by Dreibe; #165. One depicts a warrior on horseback in the Western Plains next to a buffalo skull and carrying a percussion full stock rifle. 2) Another Carl Moon photograph shows a warrior in full chief’s headdress astride a white stallion with arrows in his left hand on the rocky plain. A tag states the following: “In ambush – Taos’ also titled The Last Arrow”. 3) A Carl Moon portrait of “Navajo Patriach Profile”, vol. 2. His name is T. Lizzy-Thlaney, Many Goats”. This in the Carl Moon book by Dreibe; #95. CONDITION: All three of the previous photographs. Matted in a cream-colored picture matte and are sealed in plastic. 4) A large format published photograph titled “Indian Chiefs of Western Canada Demonstrate their Loyalty, July 1915”. On the lower left corner, the photograph is signed “North Battleford, Saskatchewan, and under the lower right hand corner “Copyrighted Canada, U.S.A., and Great Britain”. The mat is embossed with the photographers stamp, the name is illegible but the photographer is from North Battleford, Sask. The mat measures 14” x 12”. The image size is 9-1/2” x 8” and shows an early open touring car (Oakland?) with five Indian chiefs in full headdress with a British flag draped over the hood of the car. CONDITION: Excellent. Accompanied by a walnut frame in good condition. 5) Cabinet card by the “Excelsior View Co., 159 Railroad Avenue, Elmira, New York” depicting an early automobile with eight Native Americans in traditional dress, presumably an extended family. On the rear, in period ink, is written “Nez Perce 1916”. CONDITION: Good. Cardstock is beginning to separate. 6) Cabinet card, unsigned, depicting a Native American sitting in a buckboard wagon with slouch hat and blanket, being pulled by two painted ponies. He poses in front of a brick building with the sign “Ford Authorized Sales and Service”. Reverse of case written in pencil, “James Carl, IP-Na-Ta-Say-A-Cutz. CONDITION: Very good. Some fading to image. 8-87361 JJ7 (1,000-2,000)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2012
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