1890s Cabinet Card Photographs of Chief Ignacio-Ute Indian by Boston-Durango CO

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RARE Original Antique Set of Four 1890's Cabinet Card Photographs of Chief Ignacio, Southern Ute Tribe by Jacob A. Boston of Durango, Colorado.  This set of four photos is in good condition, one has the name of someone written on the back.  The photo with the green mount has paper loss around the margins.  It looks like the photo may have put on a used mount.   All four cabinet cards measure 6 1/2" x 4 1/4".  The mounts are all imprinted with "Boston, Durango, Colo." on the bottom.  Three are cream colored mounts with a scalloped edge, the green mount has a straight edge.  Each photo shows Chief Ignacio in a different pose, from the front, the back, the right side and the left side.  He is wearing a suit jacket, vest, scarf, hoop earrings & a badge that says: Indian Police!  His hair is thick & goes down over his collar in kind of a duck tail.   Chief Ignacio (1828-1913) was a chief of the Weeminuche band of the Ute tribe of American Indians, also called the Southern Utes, located in present day Colorado north of the San Juan River. He led the band through many difficult years in the late 19th century, when they were being encroached on by European-American settlers. In January 1880 Chief Ignacio was part of the Ute delegation that traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify before the US Congress about the 1879 Meeker Massacre & the Ute uprising among the northern Utes on the White River. They tried to negotiate for peace, but later that year Congress passed legislation forcing the Utes into reservations. The Southern bands managed to stay in Colorado, occupying the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in southern Colorado & named their capital Ignacio in the chief's honor.  Due to the Dawes Act which was intended to regulate the breakup of the communal Native American lands & assign separate household allotments of 160 acres each. Refusing to have their land broken up, Chief Ignacio & the Weeminuche people moved to the western part of the reservation in 1896. Their descendants have occupied the Ute Mountain Ute Reservations with their capital now in Towaoc.  This rare set of four Boston cabinet cards are sure to please any Native American image collector.
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