Live auction - Lot 974
[Native Americans]
"Kiowa Warrior".
Fort Sill, not before 1869
Hammer price: €
130
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
Visiting card, 10,6 x 6,3 cm, ms. legends on recto and verso, imprint "W.S. Soule, Fort Sill, Indian Territory. Photographs of Indian Celebrities, Stereoscopic Views, Etc." on verso (pinhole in the middle of the card).
This visiting card portrays a warrior of the Kiowa people, a Native American tribe and an indigenous people of the Great Plains of the United States. In 1867, the Kiowa were moved to a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma, probably Fort Sill. On verso: "guerrier de la tribe la plus féroce pas de quartier pour les cheveux prêtre sans aller à l'école".
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