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Jun 22, 2018
Lot of 8 silver gelatin photographs, ranging in size from approx. 3.5 x 3.5 in. to 3.25 x 5.5 in. or slightly larger. Featuring six images titled and/or signed "Tuell" with her copyright, and two with extensive notations on verso believed to be in Tuell's hand. Subjects include: "The Ancient Travois - Sioux," which involved using horses "to carry young children of the family and all the heavy loads of meat," as described on verso; view of "A Primitive Home"; "Cheyennes," showing two women on horseback; "An Evening Smoke," capturing an Indian smoking a pipe; "Indian Squaw preparing meat," the subject identified on verso as "White Cow," daughter of Chief Dull Knife of the Cheyenne; and "Rattler, Ready to Spring."
Accompanied by 4 x 6 in. silver gelatin photograph of "Sioux Indians Drying Beef Sept. 20, 18," copyrighted and dated in the negative, "B.L.B. Mott. N.D. - 1918"; and unsigned 3.5 x 5.75 in. photograph of birds perched on a branch.
Julia Tuell (1886-1960) moved west accompanying her school teacher husband. Eventually settling at Lame Deer Agency, Montana, she developed an interest in photography and began taking images of the Northern Cheyenne. She became a keen observer of Cheyenne culture, and because of her status as a woman, was allowed access to scenes of daily and ceremonial life usually considered off limits to whites. Her photographs of the Sun Dance, for example, record scenes that were fast-fading on the Northern Plains.
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