Scalp Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXI
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Scalp Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXIEntry/Object ID
575/13136B-21Scope and Content
Scalp Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXI. Drawing. Scalp Dance or victory dance. A hand, a foot and the scalp of a slain enemy are suspended from the center pole, while other scalps swing from wands carried by those who dance and sing to the beating of the drums. The inscription reads: "Kills and comes back. This is the way the Tetons dance for it." The Teton are the division of the Siouan nation to which the Oglala belong. 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, Scalp Dance, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Teton SiouxLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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