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SITTING BULL (Indian name: Tatanka Iyotaka), (1843?-1890), Hunkpapa Sioux leader and sage. Cabinet photograph signed ("Sitting Bull"), by an unidentified photographer, n.d. [1880s?].
6½ x 4¼ in., including mount, light soiling mainly to mount. Signed in Sitting Bull's square hand in lower portion of the mount. Matted and glazed in a fine decoative frame. Unexamined out of frame.
SITTING BULL AND A BUTTERFLY. A compelling image of the famed chief, wearing a wide-brimmed hat to which are pinned the wings of a monarch butterfly. The bust-length portrait shows Sitting Bull with braided hair, gazing directly into the lens. Sitting Bull was principal leader in the fierce defense of the extensive encampment on the Little Big Horn when it was unwisely attacked by U.S. cavalry under General George Custer in June 1876. In the aftermath of that bloody battle, Sitting Bull led his band north into Canadian territory. During his years of exile in Canada (1876-1881) Sitting Bull learned to sign his name in an upright cursive hand. He returned to the Standing Rock reservation after two years captivity, and spent some time as a feature "attraction" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe. In 1890 he was involved in the Messsiah agitation, and in gunfire following his arrest by reservation police was shot and killed.
6½ x 4¼ in., including mount, light soiling mainly to mount. Signed in Sitting Bull's square hand in lower portion of the mount. Matted and glazed in a fine decoative frame. Unexamined out of frame.
SITTING BULL AND A BUTTERFLY. A compelling image of the famed chief, wearing a wide-brimmed hat to which are pinned the wings of a monarch butterfly. The bust-length portrait shows Sitting Bull with braided hair, gazing directly into the lens. Sitting Bull was principal leader in the fierce defense of the extensive encampment on the Little Big Horn when it was unwisely attacked by U.S. cavalry under General George Custer in June 1876. In the aftermath of that bloody battle, Sitting Bull led his band north into Canadian territory. During his years of exile in Canada (1876-1881) Sitting Bull learned to sign his name in an upright cursive hand. He returned to the Standing Rock reservation after two years captivity, and spent some time as a feature "attraction" in Buffalo Bill's Wild West troupe. In 1890 he was involved in the Messsiah agitation, and in gunfire following his arrest by reservation police was shot and killed.