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Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota, Yanktonai Dakota, Northern Plains
1880
Albumen print on card
4.25" / 10.8 cm x 6.5" / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
This cabinet card was made by O. S. Goff, the frontier photographer based in Bismarck, Dakota Territory, and documents Standing Rock Agency at a consequential moment in Northern Plains history. The photograph predates Chief Gall's surrender at Fort Buford by one year and Sitting Bull's surrender by eighteen months, placing it within the final period before the Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota were fully confined to the reservation. Standing Rock, situated on the border of present-day North and South Dakota, was the administrative and political center through which U.S. government assimilation policy was enforced on the Sioux peoples.
Goff's work from this period constitutes one of the primary photographic records of the Northern Plains during a period of forced transition, and cabinet cards from the Standing Rock Agency carry documentary weight beyond that of generic studio portraits. The albumen process produces the warm brown tones and fine detail characteristic of the medium, well suited to the outdoor or semi-outdoor agency setting. At standard cabinet card dimensions, the image would have circulated as both a documentary object and a collectible in the late 19th-century market for Plains photographs.
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Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota, Yanktonai Dakota, Northern Plains
1880
Albumen print on card
4.25" / 10.8 cm x 6.5" / 16.5 cm
Provenance: Private collection, Utah
This cabinet card was made by O. S. Goff, the frontier photographer based in Bismarck, Dakota Territory, and documents Standing Rock Agency at a consequential moment in Northern Plains history. The photograph predates Chief Gall's surrender at Fort Buford by one year and Sitting Bull's surrender by eighteen months, placing it within the final period before the Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota were fully confined to the reservation. Standing Rock, situated on the border of present-day North and South Dakota, was the administrative and political center through which U.S. government assimilation policy was enforced on the Sioux peoples.
Goff's work from this period constitutes one of the primary photographic records of the Northern Plains during a period of forced transition, and cabinet cards from the Standing Rock Agency carry documentary weight beyond that of generic studio portraits. The albumen process produces the warm brown tones and fine detail characteristic of the medium, well suited to the outdoor or semi-outdoor agency setting. At standard cabinet card dimensions, the image would have circulated as both a documentary object and a collectible in the late 19th-century market for Plains photographs.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.