Green Corn Dance, Hidatsa
1835-1837
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 70 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135140
“On the day appointed by the doctors, the villagers are all assembled, and in the midst of the group a kettle is hung over a fire and filled with the green corn, which is well boiled, to be given to the Great Spirit, as a sacrifice necessary to be made before any one can indulge the cravings of his appetite. Whilst this first kettleful is boiling, four medicine-men, with a stalk of the corn in on…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1835-1837 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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