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Silver gelatin photograph, 10.5 x 13.5 in. (sight), framed, 13.5 x 16.5 in. Chief Standing Bear (Sioux). Titled lower right in ink and signed lower left by Louis Bostwick. A striking portrait of Standing Bear taken outside his house at White Horse Creek near Manderson, South Dakota, in 1919, by Bostwick of Omaha, Nebraska. Standing Bear was a respected Lakota artist and leader at Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. He fought in the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn at the age of 17; and later traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody’s Wild West Show in Europe (1887, 1890-1891). According to family tradition, the rifle Standing Bear holds in the photograph was purportedly from the Little Bighorn Battle. (See Greasy Grass, Vol. 29, May 2013, p. 31.) Condition: Not examined outside frame. Light, even toning. Few spots.