Name/Title
Indian Horse Dance, by Kills Two Sioux Indian Painting, Plate IXEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-09Scope and Content
Indian Horse Dance, by Kills Two Sioux Indian Painting, Plate IX, The dance is ceremonial and presented by members of the horse society or cult. Painting on both horses and men indicte that thunder and lightning are significant in the cult ideas, while the horn-like ornaments and the masks of the fore-ground rider and his steed imply that the buffalo is important. 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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Oglala Sioux Art, Horse Dance, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Oceti SakowinEthnography
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The word, Sioux, is referenced. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.Relationships
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Kills Two
