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| Prayer
to the Mystery - Sioux |
| 1908 |
Image Size: 12" x 9" |
| Platinum Print |
Paper Size: 18" x 14" |
| In supplication the pipe was always offered to
the Mystery by holding it aloft. At the feet of the worshipper
lies a buffalo-skull, symbolic of the spirit of the animal upon
which the Indians were so dependent. The subject of the picture
is Picket Pin, an Ogalala Sioux. |
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