This is an exceedingly rare, original photograph stereoview of Sitting Bull by D.F. Barry, circa 1885. There are only a few known original stereoviews of Sitting Bull with this being possibly the only example from D.F. Barry. The image is correctly signed / stamped in both images at the bottom middle, "COPYRIGHT BY D.F. BARRY". This image was taken circa 1885 by D.F. Barry Bismark, Dakota Territory. The image shows Sitting Bull with his classic stoic, bold portrait with a single eagle feather in a buckskin shirt with his braids wrapped and wearing various necklaces. David Francis Barry (1854-1934) was an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West. In 1878, D.F. Barry joined Orlando Scott Goff as his apprentice in Yankton, Dakota Territory. Between 1878 to 1883. Barry photographed the Plains at Fort Buford and Fort Yates in the Dakotas and Fort Assiniboine in Montana. He later opened a studio at Fort Yates and became well known amongst the Lakota Sioux taking historic images such as this portrait of Sitting Bull, Rain-in-the-Face, Gall, Spotted Tail, John Grass and received the Lakota nickname “Little Shadow Catcher”. He later moved to Wisconsin in 1890. This image, circa 1885, is one of the earlier portraits of Sitting Bull, with most being from circa 1890, the year of his death. Sitting Bull (1831-1890) known in Lakota as T?at?á?ka Íyotake was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux leader, and one of the most well known and historic Native American Indians of all time. Sitting Bull was the host of the 1876 Sundance and led his Hunkpapa Sioux at the Battle of Rosebud and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass), as he had a vision in which he saw many soldiers) as thick as grasshoppers” falling, foreshadowing their victory, defeating Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer on June 25, 1876. He then fled to Grandmother's land, Canada, in 1877 until returning July 19, 1881 where he surrendered at Fort Buford. He then worked with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, later returning to the Standing Rock Reservation, where the Sioux were conducting the Ghost Dance. Due to the fear Sitting Bull would join the Ghost Dance he was ordered to be arrested by Indian Service Agent James McLaughlin at Fort Yates and killed by Standing Rock policemen, Lieutenant Bull Head and Red Tomahawk, in December 18, 1890. The back is marked in graphite pencil, “Sitting Bull / 1885 D.F. Barry”. The image, unlike other examples offered, is very clear and also unlike other examples is a close-up. This is essential two original images and is a rare example. There is some crackling to the image, slight surface staining to the card, a small chip above the right image, but overall well kept for its age. Provenance: From the Jim Aplan Piedmont, South Dakota collection. Stereoview is also referred to as stereoscopy, stereoscopic, stereogram, stereo view, or stereo imaging. Measures 7”L x 3.5”W. U6.*

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