Good Bear - Hidatsa (Sioux) (original photogravure)
Plimpton Press, 1908. First Edition. Photograph. Item #274793
ISBN: 281AIB1054076
Original photogravure from Volume 4 of The North American Indian, facing page 210. Van Gelder paper. 'Good Bear (correctly Good Grizzly Bear), Dahpisi-tsaktsh: Born 1948 [in North Dakota]. Went on the war-path when eighteen; has been in sixteen battles and captured tethered horses twice, and on two occasions rescued unhorsed men in battle...Once while hunting he killed a bear, and his friend fastened the skin to slits in Good Bear's shoulders. As a sacrifice to the spirits, he then followed the back-trail of the bear until it came to the Missouri river, which he swam, though it was in the spring and the ice was breaking up.' First edition (first printing). Very good copy matted and in protective sleeve.
Price: $225.00