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Indian Fool Dancer
Indian Fool Dancer
Product #:
8050
Brand:
Ray Caruso
Description:
This is a
one of a kind "original" scrimshaw copy
of a
pen and ink/watercolor drawing by Western Artist Ken West
. This pen and ink/watercolor drawing was painted from a photograph taken by Sumner W. Matteson, at Fort Belknap, Montana, 1906.
The scrimshaw copy, by Ray Caruso, is carved onto a piece of fossilized Woolly Mammoth tusk and sits atop a custom base of black walnut. The fossil ivory measures 2 1/2" by 3".
The Indian is of the Assiniboin Tribe and is of a "Fool Dancer" who is taking a break and smoking his clay pipe. Members of this society were known as "contraries" who, during and after their dance, did everything in reverse, such as riding their horses backward or wearing their clothes backward or would even bathe after drying themselves. Assiniboin (they are known as Stonies in Canada). lived during their greatest prominence in the area west of Lake Winnipeg along the Assiniboin and Saskatchewan rivers, Canada.
Their name is derived from the Ojibwa (Chippewa) tongue and means One Who Cooks with Stones. The Assiniboin were great buffalo hunters known for their trading of pemmican (preserved buffalo meat) for firearms and other European goods brought in by traders on the Hudson Bay and along the upper Missouri. The Assiniboin were divided into separate bands, each with its own chief and council. The bands moved their camps frequently in pursuit of the migrating buffalo; before the introduction of horses in the 18th century, they moved on foot and used dog-drawn travois. Women performed all work related to the lodges (teepees), including assembling and dismantling them. Prowess in war consisted of the taking of scalps and horses and of touching the enemy during battle.
In spite of their warrior tradition, the Assiniboin were exceptionally friendly with whites. The most significant religious ceremony was the sun dance, or medicine lodge dance.
Price:
$1200.00
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Price:
$1200.00
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