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Object Number
987-27-10/71208
Display Title
"Sioux Sun Dance"
Descriptions
Object Description
"Sioux Sun Dance." Drawing. Cross near painted buffalo skull; bottom left, man in "horse dance"; bottom right, man with eaglebone whistle. Sun dancers in circle with lines to pectoral muscles as attached in the ritual. Various elements derive from painted robe designs. Black, red, blue ballpoint pen ink on paper; matted and framed.
Classification
- Drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Date
1960
Artist
James Byrnes
(1960 ca. - ca. 1960)
Culture
- Dakota
- Laguna
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Ink on Medium weight wove paper
Dimensions
Overall: 53 x 38 cm (20 7/8 x 14 15/16 in.)
Provenance
Collector
Byron Harvey, III
(? - 1987)
Donor
Byron Harvey, III
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| |
| 987-27-10/71188 | "Laguna Mots Katcina Dance" |
Painting
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Laguna Pueblo
| |
| 985-27-10/59306 | Sioux eagle bone sun dance whistle |
Woodwind
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United States
| |
| 995-29-10/74602 | Watercolor of buffalo dancer |
Painting
|
New Mexico
| |
| 2018.10.28 | Large sand painting, framed, signed R. N. Benally |
Special
|
United States
| |
| 82-44-10/27482 | Buffalo head, painted and decorated; used in Sun Dance |
Accessory
|
Nebraska
| |
| 82-45-10/27494 | Crown worn by dancer during Sun Dance |
Headdress
|
Nebraska
| |
| 82-45-10/27497 | Rawhide cutout of buffalo; Used in Sun Dance |
Communication artifacts
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Nebraska
| |
| 82-45-10/27499 | Rawhide cutout of a horse: Used in Sun Dance |
Communication artifacts
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Nebraska
| |
| 984-20-10/59606 | Painting |
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|
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| |
| 41-72-10/84 | "Sioux Indians Playing the Game of the Plum Stones" |
Drawing
|
North America
| |
| 2004.24.27120B | Buffalo figure - cut from rawhide - used in Sun Dance |
United States
|