Photographic Artifacts

[surf]

Back in the days of disposable income, and before the photography "market" caught fire, I used to search various venues for portraits of our native people. Sometimes I was very fortunate to find some good images.

I hope you all will share any of yours, that you care to.

The first may be a familiar face.

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I found it difficult to photograph these photographs behind glass. If any one has any tips for minimizing the reflection, I'd be happy to learn them.

 

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[vpnavy]

Simply amazing photographs!

 

[Get-the-point]

Hey Joel down at the flea market they have a modern Indian shop selling silver jewelry and modern native items. My point is they have a ton of picture cards with several different natives from several tribes. They have several different chief pictures. These look like photographs. I did a collage of pictures for her that turned out great. A lot of great photos. If you would like me to pick a bunch up for you and send them to you let me know. I can get them anytime on the weekend. Let me know. They had Chief Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and several other replicas from the pictures archived back then..........

 

[larson1951]

those are great photos
i like Sitting Bull he was proud to have his picture taken

i have a friend at fort yates standing rock res who used to work for me
he is a Hunkpapa Sioux named James Iron Eyes
he is a descendent of chief Sitting Bull


i gotta say when i scrolled down and saw 'one bull' it worked on me to see him posted above Sitting Bull
'one bull' was the snitch that got Sitting Bull killed

 

[surf]

i gotta say when i scrolled down and saw 'one bull' it worked on me to see him posted above Sitting Bull
'one bull' was the snitch that got Sitting Bull killed

Hello Steve,

If you can believe it, the cabinet cards of One Bull and Sitting Bull are framed together. It was a 'talking point' / Moment in History concept when I was having them framed. Sitting Bull got double top billing, and closed this portion of the show, I'd like you to notice.

 

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"Crow King (in Lakota Kȟaŋǧí Yátapi), Medicine Bag That Burns or Burns The Medicine Bag and just plain Medicine Bag. Crow King was a Hunkpapa Sioux war chief at the time of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Crow King was one of Sitting Bull's war chiefs at the Battle, he led eighty warriors against Custer's men on Calhoun Hill and Finley Ridge. For the duration of the battle of Little Bighorn, Crow King and his band of eighty warriors attacked Custer from the south, allowing Crazy Horse and Gall to surround the 7th Cavalry. Crow King died in 4-5-1884, cause of death according to the 4-11-1884 Bismarck Tribune, he died of "quick consumption" from a long lasting cold and received the rites and sacraments of the Catholic Church. Location of his burial is unknown." Crow King

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[surf]

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This is a Curt-tone, or orotone, and my photo does it no justice at all.

"The ordinary photographic print, however good, lacks depth and transparency, or more strictly speaking, translucency.We all know how beautiful are the stones and pebbles in the limpid brook of the forest where the water absorbs the blue of the sky and the green of the foliage, yet when we take the same iridescent pebbles from the water and dry them they are dull and lifeless, so it is with the ordinary photographic print, but in the Curt-Tones all the transparency is retained and they are as full of life and sparkle as an opal." The Rainbow Man : Edward S. Curtis

 

[Get-the-point]

So I guess by your failed reply you don't want those?

 

[pickaway]

Edward Curtis photos or photogravures an master prints are worth a mint if you find original ones, And if you find any real volumes of his books the North American Indian same thing big money.
Edward S. Curtis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[pickaway]

Larson you might like this page of Curtis pics, Mandan,Arikara,Atsina
Large Prints

 

[larson1951]

Larson you might like this page of Curtis pics, Mandan,Arikara,Atsina
Large Prints

hey thanks ron those are way cool

 

[Holly_squirrel]

My grandfather's , great grandpop was a full Comanche Indian, is what my Grandpa always told us. He always talked about how his grandmother had a portrait of him in full headdress hanging on the wall. I'd love to know where that portrait is now.

 

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[scotto]

here you go i found it. got a mind like a lock box don't ever forget a thing.
http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/north-american-artifacts/169237-indian-chief-photo-s.html

Thanks!!!

 

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[Sheperdess]

Wow Surf. who will you show us tomorrow. You have a nice collection of these guys,

 

[surf]

Thanks, Sheperdess. Here's today's:

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D.F. Barry Cabinet Card of Steps, Nez Perce​

 

[Sheperdess]

Man, that is ..... something. I hate being cold. And freezing off your feet and one hand must have really hurt back then. What a picture! He had to be one tough Indian.

 

[T Witko]

Last of the Mandan earth lodges.

Cool thread. My wife picked this up at an auction a few weeks ago.

 

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