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Original 3.75 x 5.5 photograph of Oglala Lakota chief Low Dog by David Francis Barry, a pioneering photographer of the American West, housed in its original 6 x 9.25 studio folder, with "Barry" blindstamped on the mount and a biographical blurb affixed on the reverse. Low Dog is shown in his full Native American regalia, topped by a single feather, with tomahawk in hand. The blurb on the reverse describes D. F. Barry as a "Photographer of Noted Indians," and thus describes Low Dog: "A Member of Chief Gall's band of Indians…He had a very wicked face…In the Custer fight he worked hard to get credit for killing so many soldiers. At the agency…he was pointed out to the whites as a real bad Indian." In very good to fine condition, with unobtrusive dampstaining to the blurb on the reverse and a few adhesive remnants to the mount.
The Collection of Dr. Joseph Matheu.
