Sale 2455 - Printed & Manuscript Americana, September 28, 2017

16 c   (AMERICAN INDIANS—PHOTOGRAPHS.) Rinehart, Frank A. Sleeping Bear, Sioux. Hand-colored platinum print, 9 1 / 2 x 7 1 / 2 inches, unmounted; minimal wear; captioned, numbered 870, and signed in the negative. Omaha, NE, 1898 [2,500/3,500] The Smithsonian identifies Sleeping Bear (circa 1850-1924) as a Sicangu Lakota or Upper Brulé Sioux, whose Rosebud Indian Reservation had been established in 1889.