A buffalo hide cut out which was attached to the top of a pole during the annual Sun Dance ceremony
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A buffalo hide cut out which was attached to the top of a pole during the annual Sun Dance ceremony

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A buffalo hide cut out which was attached to the top of a pole during the annual Sun Dance ceremony, The Sun Dance served to thank the sun for past favours and to request renewed protection. USA. Plains Indian / Oglala Sioux. Collected in 1880.

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Werner Forman Archive/ Peabody Museum, Harvard University

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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UMG12A31_055

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