Featured in this lot is a Rare Original D. F. Barry Chief Joseph Photograph, circa 1877. This is an iconic bust portrait of Chief Joseph, the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians. Chief Joseph's principled resistance to attempts to remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Indians to reservations led to his reputation as a humanitarian and peacemaker. Chief Joseph is regal with his hair in traditional braids and a bandolier over his left shoulder. The photograph displays Barry's blind stamp on the left pocket as well as along the matboard bottom right corner. From the ex-C.M. Russell Museum Great Falls, Montana and John Kleinschmidt collections / O’Dell collections. The original C.M. Russell Museum tag is still present (the same tag from all of the museum displayed items) marked “1396-87 O’DELL”. 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. Catherine A. O'Dell. An attached museum tag reads, "1396-87 O'Dell". This was on display at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana. 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. Barry photographed the Plains at Fort Buford and Fort Yates in the Dakotas and Fort Assiniboine in Montana. He later opened a studio at Fort Yates and became well known amongst the Lakota Sioux taking historic images of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, Gall, Spotted Tail, John Grass and received the Lakota nickname “Little Shadow Catcher”. This framed photograph is in amazing preserved condition considering its age of almost 150 years old, age tanning and foxing exhibited. Visible art measures 6"W x 7.875"L, frame is 9.25"W x 11.875"L x .75"D, combined weight is 1lb.