Smoothing the Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXII
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Smoothing the Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXIIEntry/Object ID
AM9999.575.36B22Scope and Content
Smoothing the Place Dance, Amos Bad Heart Buffalo, Sioux Indian Painting, Part II, Plate XXII. Drawing. Warriors, unmounted, form a ring around the dancing court, which is surrounded by greenery. An unmounted Medicine Man, carrying a scalp suspended from its stick, precedes the entry of the mounted warriors who execute the measured figures of the opening ceremony. These mounted warriors were formerly picked men, chosen as having rescued their comrades when under fire. 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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