For your consideration are Chief Gall and Chief Rain-in-the-Face Photographs, Fort Yates, Dakota Territory, circa 1870s. 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. Barry's photo of Chief Gall, Hunkpapa Lakota military leader, was taken soon after Gall had returned to Standing Rock from his exile in Canada with Sitting Bull. David Francis Barry (1854-1934) was one of the most noted photographers of the American Indian and U.S. Army participants in the Sioux War of 1876 and is attributed with some of the most recognizable surviving images from this period in the history of the American West. The photo of Chief Gall shows him holding a war shield while wearing a trade blanket and bison fur cloak robe. The photo of Chief Rain-in-the-Face appears to have been taken at a bare-bones studio location as was common in the early years of Western frontier forts like Fort Yates and Fort Lincoln. The backdrop is a sheet, a pot-belly wood stove is adjacent to the chief who is standing underneath exposed ceiling framing logs. Rain-in-the-Face was a warchief of the Hunkpapa Lakota who participated in the Battle of the Little Bighorn that defeated the 7th Cavalry Regiment under Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer. The photographs are in amazing preserved condition considering their age of over 150 years old each. The two smaller photos exhibit album page residue on reverse. Measurements are 1.25"W x 2.5"L, 1.875"W x 3.75"L, 3.75"W x 4.75"L.