Name/Title
Buffalo Hunt/Sioux Dog Travois, by Kills Two, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XIEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-11Scope and Content
Buffalo Hunt/Sioux Dog Travois, by Kills Two, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XI. (a) Plains Indian equipment for Buffalo Hunt in the old days. (b) Sioux Indian old fashion travel--so labeld by the artist. The painting represent the dog travois, employed preivous to the introduction of the pony. Painting on canvas by Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Oglala Sioux. (Collection of H.B. Alexander)
Portfolio of Sioux Indian Painting, Paintings of the Sioux and Other Tribes of the Great Plains, Part I, published by C. Szwedzicki, Nice, France, 1938. Limited Edition. No. 361. Introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Part. 1 contains Plates I-XXV. Painters of Part 1 are Sioux, Mandan, Shoshone, and Kiowa. On cover of Portfolio--Sioux Warriors on horseback, by Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Oglala Sioux.
Part. 2 contains an addition 25 Plates I-XXV different than Part 1.Collection
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ArtSearch Terms
Oglala Sioux Art, Buffalo Hunt, Dog Travois, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Oceti SakowinEthnography
Notes
The word, Sioux, is referenced. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.Relationships
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Kills Two
