Sun Dance Ritual & Peyote Cult, Silver Horn, Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXIII
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Sun Dance Ritual & Peyote Cult, Silver Horn, Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXIIIEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-23Scope and Content
Sun Dance Ritual & Peyote Cult, Silver Horn (Haun-goo-ah), Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXIII. (a) to the left, the Pole erected and adorned for the Sun Dance. It is the office of the horseman with the flag to lead in the dancers. Beside and below the Pole are shown the front and back of dancers with plume and whistle. To the left, a buffalo masker is preparied for the preliminary dance.. (b) To the right, two episodes of the Peyote Clut. Below are shown four priests approaching the ceremonial tipi, beside which are two priests and the ritual objects: drum, plumed wood, peyote beans, fan, rattle, water-bucket, fire. Above the tipi is shown a woman with water-bucket awaiting summons from within. To the right is shown the ceremony that takes place within: the crescent-shaped altar and the fire: the devotees seated upon a mosaic semi-circle made of sands, willow charcoal, and ashes. Prayers and visions mark the seance. Painting on deer skin by Silver Horn. (U.S. National Museum) 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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Kiowa Art, Sun Dance, Peyote Cult, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, KiowaLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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