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Blackfeet Sun Dance Ceremonial Medicine Lodge

Inscribed on label glued to backing: Blackfeet Sun Dance Ceremonial Medicine Lodge. Ceremonial lodge right. Medicine Lodge. Inked on paper glued to backing: Blackfeet Reservation, Mont. Right, temporary large lodge for Sun Dance & other ceremonials. Medicine Lodge with buffalos. Medicine is always spiritual with Indians.

 

The Gilcrease Museum also owns a sketch of the Sundance structure used by the dancers. (see related image, #587)

Blackfeet Sun Dance Ceremonial Medicine Lodge

Record ID: 459

Date: 1903 - 1905; [1890]

Medium: oil on canvas board

Dimensions: 12 1/4 x 16 1/8 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP.

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.339

Provenance:

The artist; [?]; Dr. Philip G. Cole, Tarrytown, NY; Thomas Gilcrease, Tulsa, OK, 1947; The Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift 1955

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Yellow Buffalo Lodge and Wolf Plume (1905)

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Blackfoot Sun Dance Medicine Lodge (1906)

Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Created concurrently with Peter Hassrick's 2018 Whitney West publication The Life & Art of Joseph Henry Sharp, this online catalogue highlights more than 700 works by J.H. Sharp that are held in public collections.