Detail View: C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works: Smoothing the Place Dance

Work Record ID: 
233
Reproduction Record ID: 
233
Work Class: 
depictions
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Sioux Indian painting
Title Type: 
collective title
Title: 
Smoothing the Place Dance
Title Type: 
constructed title
Measurements: 
11.65 x 18.70 in (25.59 x 47.50 cm) on sheet 15.30 x 19.50 in (38.86 x 49.53 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Inscription: 
Above Image Right: 22 [Plate Number]
Creator: 
Bad Heart Bull, Amos, 1869-1913
Creator Dates: 
1869-1913
Creator Nationality: 
Oglala Lakota
Creator Name Variant: 
Bad Heart Buffalo (Tatanka Cante Sice)
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1938
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
22
ID Number Type: 
plate number
ID Number: 
ARB RB Oversize E98.A7 S568 1938 Vol. 2
ID Number Type: 
call number
Style Period: 
Plains Indian
Style Period: 
Indian art--North America
Culture: 
Native American
Culture: 
Oglala Lakota
Subject: 
Belts (Clothing)
Subject: 
Braids (Hairdressing)
Subject: 
Breechcloths
Subject: 
Feathers
Subject: 
Fringe
Subject: 
Hairdressing
Subject: 
Leggings
Subject: 
Moccasins
Subject: 
Armbands
Subject: 
Beadwork
Subject: 
Dancers
Subject: 
Feather headdresses
Subject: 
Bells
Subject: 
Crow (Costume)
Subject: 
Roaches (Hair)
Subject: 
Vests
Subject: 
Shirts, Men's
Subject: 
Bandoliers
Subject: 
Breastplates
Subject: 
Hair pipes
Subject: 
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
Subject: 
Bridles
Subject: 
Horseback riding
Subject: 
Horses
Subject: 
Bridle ornaments
Subject: 
Arrows
Subject: 
Bows (Weapons)
Subject: 
Metalwork
Subject: 
Rifles
Subject: 
Revolvers
Subject: 
Horse collars
Subject: 
Scalps
Subject: 
Flags
Subject: 
War shirts
Subject: 
Scalp poles
Subject: 
Lakota Indians--Rites and ceremonies
Subject: 
Lakota dance
Subject: 
Smoothing-the-place dance (Lakota (Teton))
Related Work: 
Alexander, Hartley Burr, 1873-1939. Sioux Indian painting. With introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Nice (France): C. Szwedzicki, [1938]
Description: 
From: Sioux Indian Painting. Vol. 2, p. 10: Warriors, unmounted, form a ring around the dancing court, which is surrounded by greenery. An unmounted Medicine Man, carrying a scalp suspended from its stick, precedes the entry of the mounted warriors who execute the measured figures of the opening ceremony. These mounted warriors were formerly picked men, chosen as having rescued their comrads when under fire. Drawing by Amos Bad Heart Buffalo. Translation of Notes in image (Blish, 1867, p. 493.): This is the smoothing-the-place dance. References: Blish, Helen H. A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux. Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1967. p. 493.
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