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Blackfeet Sun Dance, Medicine Lodge

This small oil study of a Blackfeet Sun Dance lodge was made in 1906. Such a structure was erected each summer as a centerpiece in the spiritual life of all Blackfeet camps.

Blackfeet Sun Dance, Medicine Lodge

Record ID: 587

Date: 1906

Medium: oil on paper board

Dimensions: 7 x 9 1/2 in.

Signature / Inscription: LR: J.H.SHARP. On verso: Blackfeet Sun Dance Medicine Lodge about 1905-6. On sticker on verso: Blackfeet Sun Dance, Medicine Lodge, 1906

Owner: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK

Accession Number: 0137.32

Provenance: The artist:; [?]; Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, OK; present owner by gift, 1964

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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.