The Arapaho Sun Dance; the Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge by Dorsey, George A - 1903

137 plates

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E-256: Field Columbian Museum. Fair. 1903. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. The Field Columbian Museum, Chicago, IL. 1905. 228 pgs. Illustrated with 138 full page illustrations. Field Columbian Museum Publication 75. Anthropological Series Vol. IV. Wrappers worn with some shelf-wear to the extremities present (edges of the front wrapper are chipped and worn) . Front wrapper detached. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. The Sun Dance is a distinctive ceremony that is central to the religious identity of the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains. It developed among the horse-mounted, bisonhunting nations who populated the Great Plains in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Those nations at the core of its practice in the bison-hunting era that have continued its practice into the contemporary period include the Arapahos, the Cheyennes (Southern and Northern) , the Blackfoot (who include the Siksikas or Blackfoot proper, the Bloods or Kainahs, and the Northern… Read More

1903. North America, Native Americans, Journals. Field Columbian Museum Publication 75, Anthropological Series Vol. IV. 228p. Field Museum of Natural History. Very good original paperback, but with torn upper right hand front corner of cover, black pen mark at top. Plain spine, 137 plates (b/w photos and colored plates)