David F. Barry (1854-1934) Photographs of Sitting Bull's Children, Louis Sitting Bull, Crow Foot, and Standing Holy

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David F. Barry (1854-1934) Photographs of Sitting Bull's Children, Louis Sitting Bull, Crow Foot, and Standing Holy cabinet cards six cabinet cards by D.F. Barry, each with his Bismarck and/or Standing Rock, Dakota Territory imprint on mount recto and/or verso. Two versos with pasted label from the "Second International Congress of Eugenics Exhibit of Scientific Studies," held at the American Museum of Natural History in the fall of 1921, with an ownership record of C.F. Fish of South Swansea, Massachusetts. The subjects, which are identified on the mount below image or on applied paper label, include: "Sitting Bull's Son," Louis Sitting Bull, wearing a full feather headdress and beaded leggings, and holding a revolver in his hand. "Louis Sitting Bull" (soiling and wear to print and mount, edge and corner wear to mount including chipping and slight loss). "Louis Sitting Bull's Wife, Uncpapa Sioux." two studio portraits of "Standing Holy, Sitting Bull's Daughter." Applied paper label on one of the cabinet card notes, "Standing Holy is considered very handsome, and Sitting Bull's favorite child." "Crow Foot, Sitting Bull's Son," with additional details printed below, "Crow Foot surrendered his father's gun to Major Brotherton at Fort Buford in 1881. Sitting Bull claims the boy surrendered, not he" (toning and some staining to print and mount). The Larry Ness Collection of Native American Photography