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Lot of 18 silver gelatin photographs, 3.25 x 5.5 in. or smaller, including nine signed "Tuell" with titles on recto and penciled descriptions in Tuell's hand on verso, two with credit to B.L.B. Mott, and one with the stamp of Charles Belden. The eight signed by Tuell are titled recto Fast Horse - Sioux; Blackbull - Sioux (with extensive description on verso noting him wearing a George Washington peace medal "which, no one knows, what great old chiefs have possessed and handed down to this day"); Sioux Dance Costumes; Sioux Warriors; Evening in Camp (with extensive description on verso noting the creek in which the children sit as Lame Deer Creek near the spot where Chief Lame Deer met Gen. Nelson A. Miles and was killed after attempting to pull a gun on the general while offering his other hand in peace); Chief Lame Deer's Tomb; Gen. Custer's Monument; and one titled on verso "A Group of late Sioux people marching down to the fairgrounds for Native dancing/ Wood, S.D., Sept. 1922." The two by B.L.B Mott with titles in the negative Sioux Indians - Standing Rock Reservation, No. Dak., 1918, and Chief Cray Hawk & Chief Kill Crow, 1918. The image with Charles Belden's stamp shows cowboys working the Z (bar) T Ranch in Pitchfork, Wyoming. One of the uncredited views shows Sioux people and white families gathered at Shields, ND, July 26, 1912. The other uncredited views show Sioux people parading through a Dakota town and baby owls. Julia Tuell (1886-1960) moved west accompanying her school teacher husband. Eventually settling at Lame Deer Agency, Montana, she developed an interest in photography and began taking images of the Northern Cheyenne. She became a keen observer of Cheyenne culture, and because of her status as a woman, was allowed access to scenes of daily and ceremonial life usually considered off limits to whites. Her photographs of the Sun Dance, for example, record scenes that were fast-fading on the Northern Plains.