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Chief Gall or Pizi
Object Details
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Date
ca. 1886, printed after 1894
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Object Type
Photographs
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Medium
Collodion silver print
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Dimensions
Image: 7 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.
Sheet: 8 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.
Mount: 12 x 9 15/16 in. -
Inscriptions
Recto:
l.l. [blind stamp]: COPYRIGHT BY \ D. F. BARRY.
Sheet Recto:
l.r. [blind stamp]: BARRY
Mount, Recto:
u.c. in ink: Sioux Chief [underlined] "Gall" [double underlined] \ A Leading Chief in the Custer \ Massacre
l.c. [stamp]: CHIEF GALL
Mount Verso:
c. machine printed label: Chief Gall \ Photo From Life By \ DAVID F. BARRY \ Photographer Of \ NOTED INDIANS \ [double underline] \ [photograph of D.F. Barry and Chief Rain in the Face] \ D.F. BARRY & CHIEF RAIN IN THE FACE \ T[ in monogram]HE photograph of Chief Gall, with his \ head and body unadorned by savage \ finery of any kind with the Buffalo robes \ thrown back, bearing his magnificent \ Torso, is one of the most striking of all \ Indian pictures, and it is a speaking like- \ ness too, looking just as if he had stepped forth to address \ his people. \ GENL. CHAS. KING. \ \ MR. BARRY: \ Painful as it is for me to look upon a pictured \ face of an Indian, I never dreamed in all my life, there \ could be so fine a specimen of a warrior, in all the tribes \ as Chief Gall \ MRS. ELIZABETH B. CUSTER. \ The Monarch Chief, with \ the Daniel Webster face, of all \ the North American Indians. \ D.F. BARRY. \ The greatest and the strong- \ est Indian face I have ever seen. \ TRENTANOVA, \ The Sculptor of Florence, Italy \ [drawing of two Indians in front of a tee-pee] \ Chief Gall was the master mind that lead \ the Indians to victory, in the Custer Fight, \ June 25th 1876 \ Gall died in Dec. 1894, at Standing Rock Agency, North Dakota.
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Collection Name
Earl Alonzo Brininstool Collection
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Credit Line
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
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Accession Number
P1967.464
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Copyright
Public domain
Additional details
Location: Off view
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