A SIOUX GHOST DANCE STAFF. . c. 1890. ...

Description

A SIOUX GHOST DANCE STAFF

c. 1890

composed of a wood handle, partially sheathed in hide, painted with yellow ochre pigment and decorated with a checkered pattern in predominantly pale pink, blue, and green beads, pairs of tassels at top and bottom terminating in metal cones inserted with red-dyed horsehair, surmounted by a pair of cow horns secured with buffalo fur and embellished with dew claw and fiber pendants

For a similar example and discussion, see Mooney, James, The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890, 14th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1892 - 93, part 2, pp. 915-916, plates, CX and CXI.

Length: 34 inches

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