[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - NATIVE AMERICANS]. Sixth plate ambrotype of a young girl posed holding an Iroquois floral beaded pouch.
Sale 1344 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
May 31, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$254
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Lot Description
[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - NATIVE AMERICANS]. Sixth plate ambrotype of a young girl posed holding an Iroquois floral beaded pouch.
Portrait of a young girl wearing a patterned dress and having an Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) floral beaded pouch hanging from her wrist. (Chemical deterioration/halo effect around subject, with some spotting and minor scratches to plate; unsealed.) Housed in a fully separated pressed paper case.
Image illustrated in Biron, Gerry. A Cherished Curiosity: The Souvenir Beaded Bag in Historic Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Art. Self-published, 2012. p. 115.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
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