CABINET CARD – RAIN IN THE FACE HUNKPAPA DAKOTA – D.F. BARRY IMPRINT
Cabinet card, 4 ¼ x 6 ½ . Rain-in-the-Face, with printed caption, copyright notice and imprint for Barry's West Superior, WI studio, on mount, repeated verso with portrait of Gall; early 1890s.
Rain-In-The-Face (ca 1835-1905) was the Hunkpapa Lakota war Chief instrumental in the Sioux Wars of the 1860s and 70s, at various points fighting beside Red Cloud, Gall, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull. Rain-in-the-Face purportedly killed both George and Tom Custer at Little Big Horn, cutting Tom's heart out in revenge for his arrest in 1874 (a legend popularized by H.W. Longfellow's poem).
Fine condition. na cc 002