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Tombstone Western Heritage Museum Auction: The Earp Brothers & Cowboys

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Lot 125

Randall & Wittick Boudoir Card Apache "Peaches"

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000
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$500

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Presented in this lot is an Original Randall & Wittick Boudoir Card of White Mountain Apache Scouts Including Tzoe, "Peaches", circa 1883-1885. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. Tso-ay, also known as Panayotishn or Pe-nel-tishn, today widely known by his nickname as "Peaches" (1853-1933) was a Cibicue Apache who was General George Crook's most distinguished of the Apache Scouts during Crook's campaigns against the Apache, leading US troops to the Chiricahua hideout in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of Mexico. The Apache Scouts were part of the United States Army Indian Scouts, and most of their service was during the Apache Wars, between 1849 and 1886. The Apache scouts were the eyes and ears of the United States military and sometimes the cultural translators for the various Apache bands and the Americans. Apache scouts also served in the Navajo War, the Yavapai War, the Mexican Border War and they saw stateside duty during World War II. Although lacking a photographer's imprint, this portrait was likely produced by either A. Frank Randall or Ben Wittick, who are both credited with taking an almost identical photograph of Peaches in the same studio setting. A. Frank Randall (1854-1916) accompanied General George Crook's expedition as a newspaper correspondent and photographer in the campaign to capture Apache Indians in Mexico. For the next four years, Randall traveled around Arizona and New Mexico photographing various Apache tribes, including the Chiricahua, Warm Springs, Mescalero, and Jicarilla Apaches. George Benjamin Wittick (1845-1903) was a photographer who moved out west to pursue frontier photography, eventually establishing his first photography studio in Gallup, New Mexico. During his career, he photographed many subjects to include the railroad; southwestern landscapes such as Canyon de Chelly, the Navajo Reservation, and Pueblo scenes; and the Native peoples mostly the Apache, Navajo, Hopi, and Zuni. His best known photographs were of Geronimo and Billy the Kid. Tombstone Western Heritage Museum label is affixed to the face of the clear protective plastic sleeve, "WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHE SCOUTS From the San Carlos Reservation Man in the center graduated from the Carlisle School." Museum code at bottom left corner, "IN41." Reverse has period handwritten in pencil, "White Mountain Apaches, From the San Carlos Reservation, (Apache Scouts attached to the U. S. Army) Center One a Graduate of Carlisle School", museum code, "IN41". The boudoir card is in good overall condition, amazing clarity of the Scouts and studio background props, gold gilt edge exhibits slight fading and scuffing. Age tanning observed. Card measures 5.25"W x 8.5"L, plastic sleeve is 6.375"W x 9.25"L, combined weight is U6

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