IDNO

LS.21065.TC1

Description

On Catalogue Card: "Cheyenne Sun Dance (cont.). 166.Chey.16 - 19.
16. Raising centre pole. (F.C. Mus. '05, pl.38)
17. The barren earth - cleared earth in lone tipi. ([ditto] fig. 12, p.72)
18. Lone tipi abandoned. The march to the sun Dance Lodge - Priests bearing material for altar. (F.C. Mus. '05, pl.27)
19. General view of Sun Dance Lodge, Oklahoma.
(4 slides)."

Place

N America; United States of America; Oklahoma; Eagle City

Cultural Affliation

Plains Indian; Cheyenne

Named Person

Photographer

Dorsey, George A.

Collector / Expedition

Field Columbia Museum, Chicago

Date

1903

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Images from the same event published in The Cheyenne. II. The Sun Dance 195, by George A. Dorsey. Field Columbia Museum, (May 1, 1905). Vol.9., pl.38, and captioned:
"Raising the Centre-Pole.." [JD 20/08/2013]

Photographer: Dorsey notes in the above publication, p.xiv:
"All the photographs herewith produced, except a few made by
Mr. Carpenter, the photographer of this museum, or by Mr. Mooney, were made by myself during the ceremony. When not otherwise
indicated, it will be understood that the illustrations are from photo?
graphs made by me in 1903." [JD 20/08/2013]

Place: Dorsey notes in the above publication, p.xiii:
"The second Sun Dance which I witnessed, in 1903, was
held a few miles east of Eagle City, also on the north fork of the Washita." [JD 20/08/2013]