United States, Plains, Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
Circa late 19th century
Imperial cabinet card photograph
Provenance: Personal collection of David West, Phoenix, Arizona
This imperial cabinet card depicts Crow Foot, son of Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), the renowned Hunkpapa Lakota leader. Crow Foot was killed alongside his father on December 15, 1890, at the age of approximately fourteen, during the confrontation at Standing Rock that claimed Sitting Bull's life. The portrait shows a young man in a studio setting wrapped in a blanket and posed beside a decorative chair, with a direct gaze and braided hair lending the image a quiet formal authority.
As a named portrait of a historically documented individual with direct familial connection to one of the most significant figures in Lakota history, this imperial cabinet card carries considerable documentary weight. The large-format imperial card gives the portrait greater presence than a standard cabinet card. The David West provenance, Phoenix, places the object within a collecting context with longstanding connections to Plains and Southwest material.
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United States, Plains, Lakota (Hunkpapa Sioux)
Circa late 19th century
Imperial cabinet card photograph
Provenance: Personal collection of David West, Phoenix, Arizona
This imperial cabinet card depicts Crow Foot, son of Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake), the renowned Hunkpapa Lakota leader. Crow Foot was killed alongside his father on December 15, 1890, at the age of approximately fourteen, during the confrontation at Standing Rock that claimed Sitting Bull's life. The portrait shows a young man in a studio setting wrapped in a blanket and posed beside a decorative chair, with a direct gaze and braided hair lending the image a quiet formal authority.
As a named portrait of a historically documented individual with direct familial connection to one of the most significant figures in Lakota history, this imperial cabinet card carries considerable documentary weight. The large-format imperial card gives the portrait greater presence than a standard cabinet card. The David West provenance, Phoenix, places the object within a collecting context with longstanding connections to Plains and Southwest material.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
