Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXIII
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Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXIIIEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-23Scope and Content
Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXIII. Drawing. Ceremony sequent to Plate XXII. This is a public dance in honor of the warrior He Dog. On the upper right are given the words of the song: He was their friend, They were his friends, Everyone failed him, Even his own people. The song commemorates a fight on Powder River, in 1876, when a village of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians was attacked and burned by American soldiers. Portfolio of Sioux Indian Painting, Part 2, The Art of Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, published by C. Szwedzicki, Nice, France, 1938. Limited Edition (400). No. 339. Introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Signed by C. Szwedzicki & V. Grespin. Amos Bad Heart Buffalo is considered the most notable northern Indian artist whose work is known. He is the son of an Oglala warrior who fought in the Battle of Little Big Horn, along with his brother, He Dog. They are often subjects of Amos's work, Amos was born in 1869 and died in 1913. The prints are enlargements of Amos's orginial drawings. Cover: "Going to the Warriors's Dance" 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.Collection
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Sioux Art, Oglala Sioux Art, Place Dance, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala SiouxLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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