Buffalo Dance, Mandan
1835-1837
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 50.9 × 69.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-135666
“The [buffalo] mask is put over the head, and generally has a strip of the skin hanging to it, of the whole length of the animal, with the tail attached to it, which, passing down over the back of the dancer, is dragging on the ground. When one becomes fatigued of the exercise, he signifies it by bending quite forward, and sinking his body towards the ground; when another draws a bow upon him and…
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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