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A SIOUX PAINTED PICTORIAL MUSLIN
painted in black, white, red, deep orange, pale peach, and pale yellow, with eleven scenes of Lakota Sioux and/or Cheyenne warriors engaged in combat with Crow and Pawnee enemies, each scene replete with a variety of armaments, including bows and arrows, hand guns, rifles, sacred lances, coup sticks, and quirts, framed
Dimensions: 48 x 23½ in. (121.9 x 59.7 cm.) excluding frame
Further details
This muslin is accompanied by a document written by Father Peter J. Powell explaining the action and iconography.

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