ca1910 SIOUX CHIEF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE PHOTOGRAPH ADVERTISING HANDBILL BY D F BARRY

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ca1910 SIOUX CHIEF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE PHOTOGRAPH ADVERTISING HANDBILL BY D F BARRY:
$56.00

Very rare and original, ca1910 Illustrated Advertising Handbill / Insert issued by the famous Western Photographer David F. Barry and featuring images of Native American Lakota Sioux Warchief Ito-na-gaju (known as Rain-In-The-Face). The Handbill is titled \"Chief Ran-In-The-Face / Photo From Life By David F. Barry / Photographer of Noted Indians / Superior, Wisconsin\".

This fascinating advertising piece measures approx. 5 1/2\" by 10 3/4\" and is mounted on a photographer\'s Cabinet Card mount (overall size of mount is 7 3/4\" by 12\"). The Handbill features a short biography of Rain-In-The-Face along with a line drawing of a portrait photograph of the Lakota War Chief and a small printed version of the famous image of Rain-In-The-Face posing with Barry. It appears that this printed handbill was either used to promote the sale of Indian Photographs by Barry or else was an insert that was given to some who purchased a Photograph of Rain-In-The-Face from the photographer. We were able to find one example of this flyer in a library / museum collection - it is held in the National Anthropological Archive of the Smithsonian Institute where the text is reproduced in the catalog listing with the notation \"Notation on photograph in the Burdick Collection of Barry photographs\". The Handbill Reads as follows:

\"Maligned and often misunderstood, Rain-in-the-Face hated the whites for killing their game and cattle - the buffalo. True, he was a real savage on the warpath. It is a fact he killed Holzinger and Baliran on the Yellowstone, simply because they had no right on their Indian reservation. At a war dance at Standing Rock, Dakota, Rain-in-the-Face walked into the circle and related how he shot Holzinger and Baliran. Wheh he finished his story the Indians gave him great applause. Charley Reynolds, Custer\'s scout, was present unbeknown to Rain-in-the-Face, and reported to General Custer that he had listened to Rain-in-the Face tell of the shooting of these men. Later Captain Yates and Tom Custer with one hundred cavalrymen arrested the Chief at Standing Rock. He escaped from the guardhouse at Fort Lincoln, Dak. He next met the Custers on the Little Big Horn River, June 25, 1876, and no doubt he mutilated Capt. Tom Custer. In 1877, when on a buffalo hunt one of the Colt revolvers he got in the Custer fight went off accidentally, hitting him in the knee and making a cripple out of him. He surrendered to General Miles, and was one of the truest and most loyal Indians I ever knew. When moving from Dakota, Rain-in-the-Face came to my gallery, took off his moccasins, tied them together, handed them to me saying: \"Keep them as long as you live, when you look at them think of Rain-in-the-Face. Now, I say good-bye to you, and my heart is on the ground,\" walking away bare footed. He died at Little Eagle on the Grand River, Sept.12, 1905\"

Rain-in-the-Face (c. 1835 – September 15, 1905) was a warchief of the Lakota tribe of Native Americans. His mother was a Dakota related to the band of famous Chief Inkpaduta. He was among the Indian leaders who defeated George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at the 1876 Battle of Little Big Horn.

This very rare and fascinating D. F. Barry / Rain-In-The-Face Advertising Handbill on Cabinet Card mount is in good to good condition. Although the piece displays nicely there is a tape repait to a tear in the upper right hand quadrant. Whoever made this repair used tape on both the front and back surfaces. There is also a pencil notation at the bottom of the Handbill that reads \"This Photo Made 45 years ago at Standing Rock, N. Dak.\". Please see the scans below for a good indication of the form and condition of this very interesting Handbill / Insert.

A rare and original, ca1910 Illustrated Advertising Handbill / Insert issued by the famous Western Photographer David F. Barry and featuring images of Native American Lakota Sioux Warchief Rain-In-The-Face and a fantastic addition to any collection!!!

The photographer, David Frances Barry was born near Rochester, New York on March 6, 1854. His family moved west in 1861 to Wisconsin. Around 1870 Barry worked carrying water for an itinerant photographer named O.S. Goff, a relationship that was to be reestablished a few years later. Not much is known of Barry\'s life from 1870 until Goff hired him in 1878 to help him in his gallery in Bismarck, D.T. Here, Barry learned the finer points of photography and became Goff\'s apprentice, business partner, and employee.

Between 1878 and 1883, Barry traveled to Fort Buford, Fort Yates, and other forts in the Dakota Territory. He went as far north as Fort Assinnaboine in Montana. For these trips he used a portable photographic studio in which he took most of his portraits. He photographed famous Native American chiefs, warriors, scouts, and women including Sitting Bull, Rain in the Face, Gall, Red Cloud, and Shooting Star. Barry also photographed some of the most important forts and battlefields of the Plains Wars, military officers including General George A. Crook, soldiers, trappers, and pioneers. In 1883 Barry returned to Bismarck where he operated a studio and gallery. He established a friendship with Buffalo Bill Cody and photographed members of his Wild West Show.

This photo as with the other Barry Cabinet cards we are selling this week on , was likely taken at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation or at Barry’s Studio sometime around 1883.

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