Inscription inside reads: "These autographs of Indians from the Sioux tribe (Brulé) were made by them for me in the year 1882 in the city of Deadwood, Dakota (Black Hills), Elizabeth K. Fales, Mr. Jos. W. Freeman."

Lakota, Brulé, c. pre-1881, the commercially bound book titled Indian Autographs, produced by the E. Freeman company in Central Falls, RI. Contains twenty-two drawings, mostly of mounted Brulé warriors attacking the Pawnee, done in pencil, colored pencil, and ink, book 8 1/2 x 7 in.

Fales was the daughter of a Rhode Island leather manufacturer and mining engineer, a descendant of Massachusetts colonial governor William Bradford. A photograph of “Lizzie,” as she identified herself, with Freeman, dated December 25, 1881, accompanies the album, as does a family history of descendants of Governor Bradford of Massachusetts, descended laterally in the family.

Provenance: Skinner, American Indian & Ethnographic Arts, Sale 2473, lot 245, September 26, 2009. Purchased from Private Collection by Plains Ledger Art Digital Publishing Project (PILA), Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego, with funding from the Bradley Foundation.