Spirit Beings and Sun Dancers: Black Hawk's Vision of the Lakota World

by Janet Catherine Berlo

During the winter of 1880-81, Black Hawk, a Lakota artist living on the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, drew seventy-six vivid images depicting complex scenes of ceremonial activity, personal visions, historical events, and nature studies. Having recently emerged from obscurity, Black Hawk's drawing book now stands as the most complete visual record extant of Lakota art of the early reservation period (1875-95). It is published here in full, for...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807614653
• ISBN13: 9780807614655
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.3" x 8.8"