The Great Spirit: Sun Dance Priest, 1985
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Lithograph, Pochoir technique in color
28 x 23 in
71.1 x 58.4 cm
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The Sun Dance is one of the most important religious ceremonies of the North American Indian nations practiced mainly by the Arapaho, Arikara, Asbinboine, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros, Ventre, Sioux, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibway, Sarasi, Omaha, Ponca, Ute, Shoshone, Kiowa, and Blackfoot tribes. The motive of this ceremony is to gather and pray for health where members of the tribe make individual sacrifices for the benefit of the community.