Featured in this lot is an Original D. F. Barry Photograph of "Standing Holy", Sitting Bull's daughter, circa 1885, Bismarck, Dakota Territory. The albumen photograph shows Mary Standing Holy Sitting Bull (1877-1927) in a studio full-length portrait, standing, facing front. She's wearing mocassins and leggings with a full-length traditional dress and dentallium shell hair ties. 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. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". This is considered one of the largest collections of Barry photographs from one historic Montana family offered for public sale. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas has this photograph on an Imperial card with Barry's studio stamp on the reverse. 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. Barry first came to the west in the 1870’s to apprentice under photographer O.S. Goff, who worked as the photographer at Fort Abraham Lincoln. It was from this post the Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led his Seventh U.S. Cavalry division in May 1876 to the battle of the Little Bighorn in southwestern Montana.
This albumen photograph is in amazing preserved condition considering its age of almost 140 years old, album page residue noted on reverse. Measures 4"W x 5.75"L.