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Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance Buffalo Horn Club c. 1890

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:750.00 - 1,500.00 USD
Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance Buffalo Horn Club c. 1890
The lot features a fine buffalo horn dance club with red ocher painted parfleche hide and beadwork attributed to the Lakota Sioux Native American Indians. The piece that dates to circa 1890’s shows a stripped wood, presumable willow, haft handle which shows a remnant waxed painted muslin fabric wrap accompanied with Indian tanned hide covered in all period correct glass trade seed beads in a linear geometric pattern. The top shows the haft handle running through the parfleche rawhide wrapped downward turned Great American Bison Buffalo horns which is further accented on top with glass trade seed beads. The horns have a red ocher mineral pigment dyed finish. The beadwork, which is all early glass trade seed cen beads of the period, shows red white hearts, greasy yellow, cobalt, chalk white and medium to royal blue. The piece shows little bead loss and is in good condition from a large American Indian collection in Billings, Montana, the same collection as the Ghost Dance shirt also found in this sale. Measures 23.5”L by 9W.