Sun Dance Ritual, Silver Horn, Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXII
Name/Title
Sun Dance Ritual, Silver Horn, Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXIIEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-22Scope and Content
Sun Dance Ritual, Silver Horn (Haun-goo-ah), Kiowa, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XXII. Right, bottom, a captive woman strikes the tree maked by four bars while the priest and his assistants chant.--an act very characteristic of the Sun Dance ritual among prairie tribes. To the left the ceremonial party consecrates the fallen tree. Above the tree is shown teh Sun Dance Pole surrounded by the ceremonial tipis. 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, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, KiowaLegacy Lexicon
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Oceti Sakowin
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