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Material: Albumen print on card
Albumen print on cabinet card
Height 4.25 in / 10.8 cm
Width 6.5 in / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
This 1881 albumen cabinet card by O. S. Goff shows Chief Gall’s Hunkpapa Lakota camp. Goff worked from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, and the image dates to the year Gall returned from exile in Canada and surrendered at Fort Buford. The camp view records a group of tipis across an open Plains setting, with the community itself serving as the primary subject rather than an individual portrait.
Gall, born in 1840 along the Moreau River in present-day South Dakota, became one of the most prominent Hunkpapa Lakota leaders of the Northern Plains. He was closely associated with Sitting Bull, fought in major conflicts including Killdeer Mountain and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and later returned to Standing Rock, where he became a political leader until his death in 1894. As a dated photograph connected to Chief Gall’s camp, the image belongs firmly within the Plains region and should be presented with clear historical context.
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Material: Albumen print on card
Albumen print on cabinet card
Height 4.25 in / 10.8 cm
Width 6.5 in / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
This 1881 albumen cabinet card by O. S. Goff shows Chief Gall’s Hunkpapa Lakota camp. Goff worked from Bismarck, Dakota Territory, and the image dates to the year Gall returned from exile in Canada and surrendered at Fort Buford. The camp view records a group of tipis across an open Plains setting, with the community itself serving as the primary subject rather than an individual portrait.
Gall, born in 1840 along the Moreau River in present-day South Dakota, became one of the most prominent Hunkpapa Lakota leaders of the Northern Plains. He was closely associated with Sitting Bull, fought in major conflicts including Killdeer Mountain and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and later returned to Standing Rock, where he became a political leader until his death in 1894. As a dated photograph connected to Chief Gall’s camp, the image belongs firmly within the Plains region and should be presented with clear historical context.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.