[NATIVE AMERICANS] Boudoir card of 1887 Coeur D'Alene Treaty Delegation. Missoula, MT: H.B. Calfee.
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Jun 19, 2024
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[NATIVE AMERICANS] Boudoir card of 1887 Coeur D'Alene Treaty Delegation. Missoula, MT: H.B. Calfee.
Boudoir photograph on cardstock mount showing members of an 1887 Coeur D'Alene Treaty Delegation, including elders of the Coeur D'Alene and Spokane tribes. H.B. Calfee's "Yellowstone National Park, Missoula, Montana" imprint on verso (toning, occasional scattered spotting to print; edge and corner wear to mount, slight surface loss to verso). Posed with the Native Americans are two white men, including Judge John V. Wright second from left and Henry Andrews, Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs third from right.
Henry Andrews and John V. Wright were members of the Northwest Indian Commission sent in 1887 to negotiate a settlement with the Coeur D'Alene and Spokane for lands in Idaho, Washington and Montana Territories. In March of that year, a first attempt for settlement was reached, but a treaty was not ratified until 1891. This image was presumably taken at that time. An example of the same photograph was previously offered at Cowan's Auctions, American Indian Art, 16 September 2006, Lot 323.
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