Featured in this lot are Photographs by Captain W. C. Badger from the Photo Collection of Col. A. B. Welch (1874-1945) of Arikara, Mandan and Gros Ventre warriors, their Dwellings and Medicine Lodges, developed in 1926, from ‘lost’ Stereopticon Views. Provenance: From the John Kleinschmidt collection which was on loan to the C.M. Russell Museum from 1987 to 1993 and included in the "The Cowboy West: 100 Years of Photography 1992-1993 exhibit. These photographs are attributed to Colonel Alfred Burton Welch who was well known for his extensive artifact collection and lifelong association with the Sioux nations. The Welch Dakota Papers include thousands of pages of oral interviews, writings, newspaper articles and photographs of the Sioux, Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan peoples. Welch is credited as the first white man adopted into the Yanktonai Sioux, a separate band from the Yankton Sioux; both are considered Western Dakota people, one of the three groupings belonging to the Sioux nation. Descriptions of the photographs include: #1, Son of Red Cow and Little Bull, Mandan Warriors 1872, Fort Berthold #2, The Marauder and Son of Crow's Breast, Warriors of the Gros Ventre 1872, Fort Berthold. The albumen photographs are in very good preserved condition for being almost 100 years old, each measures 4.5"W x 5.5"L, silver gelatin enlargements are each 8"W x 10"L.