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Two vintage original 8 x 5 boudoir photograph cards of Native American encampments, depicting tribe members, horses, and tepees, with one encampment pictured next to a pond or river. The reverse of one bears a photography stamp of Christopher Charles Stotz (1851-1932), and the reverse of the other features a period advertisement for Black Hills jewelry, Minne Pazuta curative spring water, and a “Views” employment offer from the Northwestern Photographic Co. of Chadron, Nebraska, seeking images related to “Wounded Knee Battle, Indian Camps, War Camps, Indian Chiefs.” In overall very good to fine condition, with edgewear, and some areas of surface loss to the advertisement card.
C. C. Stotz was an acclaimed early photographer of Native American life and culture, who established a studio in El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, in 1889, the same year El Reno was founded. During the 1880s and 1890s, Stotz made numerous field and studio photographs of Southern Plains Indians.
