FINE CHRISTIAN BARTHELMESS COLLOTYPE OF STUMP HORN BULL, CROW,

FINE CHRISTIAN BARTHELMESS COLLOTYPE OF STUMP HORN BULL, CROW, (image 1/1)
Pricing & History
12.5 x 7", with L.A. Huffman stamped on verso (see also Lot 211); Stump Horn Bull poses casually for the camera, wearing a cotton shirt and holding a cigarette in his hand. The actual photographer was Christian Barthelmess, a soldier and amateur photographer stationed at Fort Keogh near Miles City, Montana, beginning in 1888. He and Laton Alton Huffman were friends, and Barthelmess often used Huffman’s Miles City studio to make portraits. After Barthelmess was killed in 1906, his wife gave many of his glass negatives to Huffman, who thereafter issued some of them as his own work. This bust portrait was actually cropped and enlarged from a group portrait of six Crow men serving as scouts at Fort Keogh. It was common for a Crow man to have several names during his lifetime. Improvement in social station, or simply a wish to achieve the same, might be cause for a new moniker. This is the same man portrayed about five years earlier in an F. J. Haynes photo as Hail Stone (see lot 211).Condition: Excellent.
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