Council (or more properly, Sun Dance or Medicine Lodge)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1875-1878
name: label: original artist
content: Bear's Heart
notes: label: Description
content: Bear's Heart, or Nock-ko-ist (Cheyenne),
label: Description
content: drawn between 1875 and 1878 at Fort Marion, Florida
label: Description
content: "Council" (or more properly, Sun Dance or Medicine Lodge)
label: Description
content: Collected by Richard Henry Pratt about 1878
label: Description
content: Colored pencil, ink, colored ink, and watercolor
label: Description
content: The drawing of a Sun Dance or Medicine Lodge gathering offers a partial view of one moment in the most sacred of Plains Indian ceremonies. The event is represented here by the Sun Dance lodge with its cloth and tree-branch offerings flying. The people stand outside to bear witness to the sacred offerings being made, while four painted Sun Dancers stand ready to make their sacrifices inside. Four men, probably warrior society officers, stand guard over the ceremony.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Florida, Anastasia Island, Fort Marion
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Cultures & Communities
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content: Military
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content: Ledger Drawings
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0175.56
label: accession number
content: 2008.0175
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0175.056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: drawing
label: Object Name
content: ledger drawing
label: Object Type
content: Drawings
label: Other Terms
content: drawing; Watercolor
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12.8 cm x 20.4 cm; 5 1/16 in x 8 1/16 in