Hankpapa/Lakota


CMC V-E-197 a,b

Hanpa ksupi, c. 1880.





Collected by James Grant
from
Chief Sitting Bull, c. 1876-1881. 

 


Glass beads, smoked brain-tanned buffalo hide, painted rawhide from parfleche, pigment, sinew.


The two red mountains symbolize the West, thunder, and medicines.

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