Figure 25 - Lecture 7.2

Lecture 7.2 - Myth and Meaning - Figure 25

Figure 25: Lakota, c. 1895. Watercolor on cloth.

This is a replica of the Ghost Dance shirt worn by Big Foot, the leader of the Lakota Ghost Dancers who were massacred at Wounded Knee. The replica was made by a survivor of the massacre.

The Denver Art Museum acquired it from Ella Deloria, the renowned Lakota anthropologist.

The shirt's design is unusual in that it includes fish, a type of animal rarely seen in Plains art.