Eagle and Star | Buffalo Dreamer holding hoop with Sun Dance flags
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The Transformed Buffalo Dreamer shown here is drawn as if inside the Sun Dance enclosure, moving between the yellow and read Sun Dance banners. The Dreamer holds a red hoop, the flowing spiritual power altering its round shape. The drawing is a direct copy of a Walter Bone Shirt Drawing from another ledger book, this one in the PILA Collection at the University of California, San Diego, Geisel Library Special Collections, Walter Bone Shirt Ledger - UC San Diego Library, plate 19.
Mary Eliza Mead acquired this set of drawings created by Walter Bone Shirt at Pine Ridge Reservation, where she and her husband operated a trading post. Mike Cowdrey places the acquisition to the time of the Wounded Knee massacre at the end of 1890. The Two Strikes band with which Bone Shirt was associated had moved from Rosebud to Pine Ridge. When they returned to Rosebud Reservation, the military commander was the same Lt. John S. Parkes that obtained the Mansfield Library set of Walter Bone Shirt drawings that were copied in previous pages.
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