BARRY DAVID F Sioux Ghost Dance Taking a census at the Stan

Sale 1947 - Lot 5

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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000

BARRY, DAVID F.<>
Sioux Ghost Dance * Taking a census at the Standing Rock Reservation, Dakota Territory. Together, 2 photographs. Albumen prints, 6¼x9 and 7½x9 inches (15.8x22.8 and 19x22.8 cm.), the first with Barry's backmark on mount verso; the second with his credit printed on mount recto. 1880s

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In the late 1880s, the Sioux people began practicing a new religion taught by the Paiute prophet Wavoka. He instructed his followers to perform a dance, later known as the Ghost Dance, which he said would result in the return of land, the disappearance of the white man, the resurrection of ancestors, and eternal peace. The U. S. government responded harshly to this practice, killing scores of Native American ghost dancers, including Sitting Bull, at Wounded Knee.<