Shirt
45-15-283
From: United States of America | South Dakota | Medicine Road District | Pine Ridge Reservation
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 45-15-283 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Oglala | Lakota |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota | Medicine Road District | Pine Ridge Reservation |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Muslin | Paint |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Ghost Dance | Star | Planet | Eagle | Lightning |
| Subject | Ghost Dance |
| Description | Shirt that depicts the Ghost Dance cosmology. Front: Dream-Producer Dragonfly, dreams, medicine, headed star, evening star, two stars and planets with a green world below. Back: Thunder-Eagle with lightening descending to green earth, fringe colored with sacred red paint. Path leading to Happy Hunting Grounds (Hereafter), green dots (stations on the way), blue lightning along arms. |
| Length | 85 cm |
| Width | 177 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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