sepia-toned 6.25 x 4.25" silver gelatin photograph, artistically mounted on larger wove paper mat with imprint of the Butler Studio, Bismarck, N.D., with a ledger-type drawing accomplished by Red Tomahawk on the blank lower margin of the mount depicting the warrior holding a red tomahawk poised over his head, symbolically striking a buffalo, along with a drawing of a catlinite pipe and pipe bag. Red Tomahawk was one of the Indian policemen dispatched by Standing Rock Rservation Indian Agent James McLaughlin to arrest Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890, and is credited with killing him. Taken about 1916 and given to Colonel Alfred Burton Welch, Mandan resident, early collector and Lakota historian and adopted son of John Grass the Hunkpapa chief. According to notes accompanying the photograph, the glyphs show the figure of Red Tomahawk striking Sitting Bull (represented by a figure of a sitting buffalo) with a stone club, a red circle with outward extending rays suggest the act of hitting. Welch was a close friend of Red Tomahawk, and according to a newspaper clipping accompanying the lot, was present at his funeral in August, 1931. A fine, dramatic portrait of Red Tomahawk depicting him in the act for which he is most famously known. Provenance: Ex Colonel Alfred Burton Welch Collection Condition: EXC.
sepia-toned 6.25 x 4.25" silver gelatin photograph, artistically mounted on larger wove paper mat with imprint of the Butler Studio, Bismarck, N.D., with a ledger-type drawing accomplished by Red Tomahawk on the blank lower margin of the mount depicting the warrior holding a red tomahawk poised over his head, symbolically striking a buffalo, along with a drawing of a catlinite pipe and pipe bag. Red Tomahawk was one of the Indian policemen dispatched by Standing Rock Rservation Indian Agent James McLaughlin to arrest Sitting Bull on December 15, 1890, and is credited with killing him. Taken about 1916 and given to Colonel Alfred Burton Welch, Mandan resident, early collector and Lakota historian and adopted son of John Grass the Hunkpapa chief. According to notes accompanying the photograph, the glyphs show the figure of Red Tomahawk striking Sitting Bull (represented by a figure of a sitting buffalo) with a stone club, a red circle with outward extending rays suggest the act of hitting. Welch was a close friend of Red Tomahawk, and according to a newspaper clipping accompanying the lot, was present at his funeral in August, 1931. A fine, dramatic portrait of Red Tomahawk depicting him in the act for which he is most famously known. Provenance: Ex Colonel Alfred Burton Welch Collection Condition: EXC.
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