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THB[NATIVE AMERICAN] Two Generations of Indigenous Family
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LiveNov 22, 2025
This exclusive catalog presents a select offering from the personal collection of Alejandro "Alex" de Quesada Jr., renowned historian, author, and collector. The catalog features exceptionally rare swords, historically significant belt buckles and military insignia, original Civil War flags, and a wide range of ephemera representing pivotal moments in military history. Fleischer's Auctions info@fleischersauctions.com
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RARE PORTRAIT OF A NATIVE AMERICAN AND CHILD
United States, circa 1860s. Ninth-plate tintype housed in a full leatherette case.
A seated adult, richly dressed in a feathered roach-style headdress with a beaded brow band, faces the camera holding a feather fan. He wears a checked trade-cloth shirt and a large disk gorget at the throat; a strap across the chest is set with round metal ornaments - details consistent with regalia seen among peoples of the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes, though the specific community is unconfirmed. At his side stands a child in Euro‑American dress, a beaded necklace at the collar.
The combination of a roach headdress, metal disk gorget, and ornamented shoulder strap suggests cultural affiliations with nations of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi (e.g., Anishinaabe/Ojibwe, Ho‑Chunk/Winnebago, Potawatomi, or related communities). Because regalia elements often circulated through trade and diplomacy and studio props were sometimes supplied, a precise attribution cannot be made; the present cataloging respects that uncertainty while recognizing the portrait’s clear Indigenous authorship of dress and presence.A moving, carefully posed cased tintype that records two generations within an Indigenous family, this image unites ceremonial regalia and studio portrait conventions at a moment when photography was becoming a tool of Native self‑representation as well as a record for non‑Native audiences.
[Native Americans, Native American History, American Indian, Indian History] [Photography, Early Photography, Historic Photography, Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Cased Images, Union Cases, Albumen Photographs, CDVs, Carte de Visites, Cartes de Visite, Carte-de-visite, Cartes-de-visite, CDV, Cabinet Cards, Stereoviews, Stereocards, Stereographs]
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