Frank
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Post by Frank on Apr 2, 2007 13:40:18 GMT -6
I posted this into the Buffalo Bill section but decided to post it here too...because it has Indians in it... have you seen this one before? www.franksrealm.com/Edison_1894_Buffalodance.mpgIf you want I can add samekind "Ghost Dance" video, also filmed in Bills Circus but I dont want to put it on my website if no one cares ;D because it takes some space.... Let me know.
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Post by Realbird on Aug 12, 2007 17:59:17 GMT -6
I've never seen this before and, really enjoyed it. I would love to see the "Ghost Dance" video, I have always been intrigued by this conception. thank You.
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tk
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Post by tk on Jan 3, 2008 18:04:13 GMT -6
Sorry to be so late in replying: What is portrayed in this short clip is not the "modern" Buffalo Dance, nor does it reflect older "Buffalo" Dances as in Catlin (no buffalo headdresses). It does bear some resemblances to the "Omaha" [Hethuska] dance as received by various Lakota peoples in the 1850s-1880s period (there is one bustle, but it is of a strange style, and no roaches IIRC). ATST, it is *not* a Ghost Dance, except by the association of the "Crow" Dance (a variant of the Omaha Dance which diffused into western Oklahoma via Grant Left Hand ( S Arapaho), who may have learned it at Carlisle, at the same time as the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Dance, per se, was a round dance in which the dancers linked hands. The widely circulated images of Remington and Amedee Forestier, which perport to illustrate "Ghost Dances", but which show individual dancers in individual states of extasy, more likely are distortions of the Crow Dance phase of the larger ceremonial among the Lakota and Southern Arapaho. [See my Imaging and Imagining the Ghost Dance" at php.indiana.edu/~tkavanag/visual5.html]. tk Thomas W. Kavanagh PhD Seton Hall University tk Thomas W. Kavanagh phD Seton Hall University
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Post by tk on Jan 3, 2008 18:14:41 GMT -6
I take that back:
"and no roaches IIRC"
The three dancers are wearing roaches, but not easily identifiable as to style.
tk Thomas W. Kavanagh PhD Seton Hall University
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