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Title: An Indian horse dance
Creator: Kills Two, Sam, 1869-1927
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 1920-1930
Publication Information: Ella Strong Denison Library
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors
Rights Information: For more information on copyright or permissions for this image, please contact Ella Strong Denison Library at http://www.scrippscollege.edu/denison/
Description: This painting, done in ledger style, depicts four stylized figures wearing buffalo headdresses on horseback. Inscribed on recto: An Indian Horse Dance. Inscribed on verso: Equestrian Dance Drawn by Kills Two, an Oglala Sioux.
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: pap00017.tif
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/pap/id/20
Language: English
Subject: Oglala Lakota
Indians of North America-Great Plains
Oglala dance
Oglala Indians
Dance costume
Horses in art
Bow and arrow
Time Period: 20th century
Place: Great Plains
Source: Watercolor and ink on canvas, 12.5 x 13 inches; Hartley Burr Alexander Collection of American Indian Artwork, box 2, folder 7
Relation: Pueblo and Plains Indian Watercolors - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/pap

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