Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)
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Title:
Plate 097 Sioux Girl
Date:
1907
Size:
Portfolio, 22 x 18 inches
Medium:
Vintage Photogravure
A young Sioux woman in a dress made entirely of deerskin, embroidered with beads and porcupine-quills.
The decorative art of the Lakota found expression on their deerskin garments, pipe-bags, saddle-blankets, robes, parfleches, shields and tipis… There seems to be no fixed motif in many of their designs, each woman reading into her art whatever may be prompted by her thoughts, the same figure sometimes meaning as many different things as there are workers.
The decorative art of the Lakota found expression on their deerskin garments, pipe-bags, saddle-blankets, robes, parfleches, shields and tipis… There seems to be no fixed motif in many of their designs, each woman reading into her art whatever may be prompted by her thoughts, the same figure sometimes meaning as many different things as there are workers.