For your consideration is a Rare Original D. F. Barry Sitting Bull Photograph, circa 1885, Bismarck, Dakota Territory. The image shows Sitting Bull with his classic stoic, bold portrait with a single eagle feather in a buckskin shirt with his braids wrapped and wearing various necklaces. Barry printed the original seated portrait of Sitting Bull photo on a stereoview card format as well. 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. This is considered one of the largest collections of Barry photographs from one historic Montana family offered for public sale. 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 such as this portrait of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, Gall, Spotted Tail, John Grass and received the Lakota nickname “Little Shadow Catcher”. This image, circa 1885, is one of the earlier portraits of Sitting Bull, with most being from circa 1890, the year of his death. Sitting Bull (1831-1890) known in Lakota as T?at?á?ka Íyotake, was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader, and one of the most well known and historic Native American Indians of all time. Sitting Bull was the host of the 1876 Sundance and led his Hunkpapa Sioux at the Battle of Rosebud and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass), as he had a vision in which he saw many soldiers) as thick as grasshoppers” falling, foreshadowing their victory, defeating Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876. This photograph, unlike other examples offered, is very clear and also unlike other examples is a close-up. This albumen photograph is in amazing preserved condition considering its age of almost 140 years old, slight tear at bottom left corner, album page residue noted on reverse. Measures 3.75"W x 5.125"L.