Drawing
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 Jun 1911
label: Collection Date
content: 1910
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Allyn K. Capron
label: Collector
content: Mrs. Lillian Capron
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Allyn K. Capron
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "DRAWING OF GHOST DANCE [sic, this ID is incorrect, see below] ON BUCKSKIN. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. INDIANS, VOL. 10, SOUTHWEST, FIG. 5, PG. 749." CAPTION IN HANDBOOK IDENTIFIES IT AS "PAINTING ON TANNED DEERSKIN, DEPICTING THE GIRL'S PUBERTY CEREMONY. FIGURES ARE OUTLINED IN BLACK AND COLORED BLUE, YELLOW, PINK, AND ORANGE. LENGTH AT CENTER 47 CM, COLLECTED BEFORE 1910, PROBABLY AT FT. SILL, OKLA." HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED T0 GOKLIZ (A.K.A. GOKLITZ), SEE CAT. #S E270075 AND E385920. - F. PICKERING 2-10-1999 Per Leland Michael Darrow, Tribal Historian for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Gokliz was a prisoner with the Chiricahua Apaches, however he himself was White Mountain Apache.
label: Notes
content: Painting depicts part of a girl's puberty ceremony - the part when the Crown dancers appear at night and dance around a large bonfire with the girl(s). The ceremony can be held for more than one girl at a time.
label: Notes
content: This is one of several works in public collections by Frederick Gokliz, a Warm Springs Apache married into the Chiricahua and imprisoned with them in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Three pieces are directly documented to Gokliz, E270075 and National Anthropological Archives # 270077 by inscription on the piece and E385920 by the collector's catalog, all collected at Ft. Sill 1894-1897. Other works attributed to him on the basis of style are: E270076; 2-4817, Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley; and a series in the Ayer collection, Newberry Library. All are from collectors who were at Ft. Sill. Another set of drawings at the St. Augustine Historical Society in Florida by perhaps multiple artists includes images attributed to Gokliz. This set was reportedly produced after the Indian prisoners held there had attended a circus.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache, White Mountain
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 052933
label: USNM Number
content: E270076-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - At Center
content: 47 cm