Lot of 12 silver gelatin photographs, most 3.25 x 5.5 in. or 3.375 in. square, all signed "Tuell" and several copyrighted 1911, most with notations on verso believed to be in Tuell's hand. The larger photographs are titled on recto Jerking Meat - Cheyenne; The Sun Dance; Little Mothers & Dolls - Cheyenne; "A part of their food to the Sun God" - Sun Dance - Cheyennes; The Wolf Hide - Animal Dance; Strong-Left-Hand - Cheyenne; and The Bad Lands, So. Dak., plus one untitled view of a boy playing among tepees. Scenes of the Sun Dance and girls playing with their dolls with extensive descriptions on verso in Tuell's hand. Smaller views are of daily life, including two of Strong Left Hand's sister, Tangled Hair, titled on recto Their Daily Bread and For the Campfire, with penciled descriptions on verso; one of Strong Left Hand's daughter and grandchildren; one of a warrior leading a horse and travois, titled An Early Day Manner and one of the frame of a sweat lodge, titled Medicine-prayer on recto and with Tuell's notes to "connect with medicine lodges, sweat scenes" on verso. 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.
Lot of 12 silver gelatin photographs, most 3.25 x 5.5 in. or 3.375 in. square, all signed "Tuell" and several copyrighted 1911, most with notations on verso believed to be in Tuell's hand. The larger photographs are titled on recto Jerking Meat - Cheyenne; The Sun Dance; Little Mothers & Dolls - Cheyenne; "A part of their food to the Sun God" - Sun Dance - Cheyennes; The Wolf Hide - Animal Dance; Strong-Left-Hand - Cheyenne; and The Bad Lands, So. Dak., plus one untitled view of a boy playing among tepees. Scenes of the Sun Dance and girls playing with their dolls with extensive descriptions on verso in Tuell's hand. Smaller views are of daily life, including two of Strong Left Hand's sister, Tangled Hair, titled on recto Their Daily Bread and For the Campfire, with penciled descriptions on verso; one of Strong Left Hand's daughter and grandchildren; one of a warrior leading a horse and travois, titled An Early Day Manner and one of the frame of a sweat lodge, titled Medicine-prayer on recto and with Tuell's notes to "connect with medicine lodges, sweat scenes" on verso. 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.
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