Antique Cabinet Card Photo of Buckskin Charley, Southern Ute Chief w/Two Wives

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Original Early 1900's Antique Cabinet Card Photograph of Buckskin Charley, Southern Ute Chief with his Two Wives.   This cabinet photo is in good condition with pin holes in the corners & scratches on the photo.  The photograph measures 5 1/2" x 4" on a grey mount that is 6 1/2" x 4 1/4". The name of the studio is stamped below the photo, but it's faded & hard to read. It looks like Boston Studio, (Jacob A. Boston, Durango Colorado photographer) but I could be wrong.  Someone wrote their name on the back in pencil.  They also wrote: "Buckskin Charlie & his two wives". Buckskin Charlie is sitting on the left with a scarf around his neck & leather wrappings around his braids.  His beautiful wife To-Wee (Emma Naylor Buck) is sitting at his feet. She is wearing beaded moccasins with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders.  The woman (2nd wife?) sitting on the far right is holding a Ute hand-beaded cradleboard that does not appear to have a baby in it. Buckskin Charley was the leader of the Capote band of the Ute tribe from 1880 until his death in 1936. He succeeded Chief Ouray as the official treaty negotiator.  He learned English & took the white man's name Charles Buck, but he was best known as Buckskin Charley.
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In 1890, he was given the Rutherford Hayes Indian Peace Medal by President Benjamin Harrison.  He rode with Geronimo in Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 Inaugural Parade. His son, Antonio Buck, Sr. succeeded him as hereditary chief & became the first elected chairman of the Southern Ute tribe.  A stunning photo & an amazing cabinet card for any Native American image collector.  Don't miss out on it.
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