Beautiful Harman Percy Marble Original Photograph of the Sioux Tribe - Circa 1910

A beautiful, original Harman Percy Marble photograph of the Sioux Tribe.

Circa 1910 and measures 5" x 7".

Features a Native American woman far left having silver coins on her blouse, then the next woman has a modified woman's breast plate and elk teeth on her bodice of the trade cloth dress and she appears to be wearing what appears to be a satin skirt. The Caucasian woman is wearing a hat, blouse, a long skirt and she is holding a shawl. The woman next to her is holding, maybe, a fan, which reads, "Don't do with your hands what machines will do." The 3rd Native American woman from the right is wearing a dentillum shell dress with a concho belt trailer, 2nd woman from the right is wearing bone breast plates and has elk tooth on her blouse.

This photograph is good condition. Please review photographs thoroughly.

Harman Percy Marble was born in 1870 in Pawnee County, Nebraska and passed away in 1945. He was known as a creative photographer of Native Americans, which many of the photographs were of the Navajo, Menominee and Sioux Tribes during his Government career and Mayor of Las Vegas. In 1911 he sold his paper, The Humboldt Leader and joined the Government Indian Service. He was assigned to the Navajo Reservation in Arizona, Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin, the Sikoux Tribes of Fort Thompson, South Dakota and the Southern Pueblos of Albuquerque, New Mexico and eventually returned to Arizona and then he lived out his years in Las Vegas Nevada. Biography and information credited to Wikipedia.

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