Larger than life bronze sculpture featuring 14 bison pursued by 3 Native Americans riders. Northern Plains Peoples Educational Interpretive Center. Native American Gift Shop. Sweetgrass Grill and Snack Bar. Dances with Wolves movie costumes. Lakota interpretive presentations daily.
Larger than life bronze sculpture featuring 14 bison pursued by 3 Native Americans riders. Northern Plains Peoples Educational Interpretive Center. Native American Gift Shop. Sweetgrass Grill and Snack Bar. Dances with Wolves movie costumes. Lakota interpretive presentations daily.
Pipe bowl and pipestem, Oglala Lakota. Catlinite/pipestone, wood. North Dakota or South Dakota. Collected by amateur ornithologist George Newbold Lawrence (1806-1895) during a trip from Missouri to the Columbia River in 1860. NMAI.
Necklace, Sioux. North Dakota or South Dakota. NMAI
The flag of South Dakota features the state seal in the centre, surrounded by a golden blazing sun in a blue field. flag of SD was officially adopted in 1909
Medicine bag, Lakota. Hide, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche. North Dakota or South Dakota. Probably collected by Captain William Krause (1845-1901, U.S. Army, 3rd Infantry), who served during military campaigns on the Plains between 1870 and 1890. NMAI
Ear ornament, Sioux. Dentalium shell/shells. North Dakota or South Dakota. Collection of Nate Salsbury (1846-1902, a theatrical agent and principal owner of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West" Show in New York City). NMAI
Interior photography from across the Midwest by Barrington Hills-based photographer Margaret Rajic.
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Pipebag, probably Lakota (attributed); possibly collected among the A'aninin (Gros Ventre). Hide, glass bead/beads, rawhide, porcupine quills, dye/dyes. Alberta; 1880-1910 Collection of Walter C. Wyman (1850-1927, a Chicago area dealer and collector); purchased by MAI from the estate of Walter Wyman in 1931. NMAI
Pipebag, probably Lakota. Hide, glass bead/beads, porcupine quills. North Dakota or South Dakota. Collection history unknown; acquired by Frank M. Covert (1858-1929, an Indian artifact dealer in New York) at an unknown date; purchased by George Heye from Frank Covert circa 1904. NMAI
Headdress, Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux). Hide, eagle feather/feathers, wool cloth, glass bead/beads, twine/string, horsehair, fur, feather/feathers, dye/dyes, paint. 187 x 80 x 20 cm. South Dakota; circa 1880. Collection of George W. Rehse (1868-1939, a cartoonist who worked in Minneapolis and New York City); lent to MAI by George Rehse in 1922 and returned to him in 1925; purchased by MAI from George Rehse in 1938. NMAI.
Two Lance (Wahukeza Nonpa), Oglala Lakota. Wood, catlinite/pipestone. South Dakota. Collection history unknown, but said to have been owned by Two Lance (Wahukeza Nonpa, Oglala Lakota); formerly in the “Moss collection” and said to have been purchased at an auction held by the Williams, Barker & Severn Company (Chicago, Illinois), probably before 1947. NMAI.
Parfleche bag, Oglala Lakota. Rawhide, wool cloth, hide thong/babiche, paint. Pine Ridge Reservation; South Dakota; circa 1890. NMAI.
Oglala Sioux - South Dakota flag
Lakota language champion Albert White Hat died last week at age 74 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
