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Ball-Play Dance
| Choctaw Indians performing dance (Plate 22). "As I have mentioned in former pages that for nearly all their hunts, wars, or games, the events of which the Indians superstitiously believe to be controlled by the agency of some supernatural influence, they must needs give a dance and a song; so for a guarantee of success in this important and desperate game, each party must invoke that countenance and aid of the spirit or genius supposed to preside over it, by precluding the play with the singular and picturesque mode represented in this plate, called by them the Ball-play Dance." |
| Image ID: | 23640 |
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| Creation Date: | 1844 |
| Creator Name: | Catlin, George |
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| Collection Name: | Rare Books |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, fine-art |
| Original Format Number: | E77 C399 1844 |
| Original Dimensions: | 22 x 16 inches |
| Image source: Catlin, George. Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. From Drawings and Notes of the Author, Made during Eight Years' Travel amongst Forty-Eight of the Wildest and Most Remote Tribes of Savages in North America. (London: Geo. Catlin, 1844). This image is also viewable in the American Journeys online edition of "Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio." |
| Horses |
| Painting |
| Trees |
| Clothing and dress |
| Choctaw Indians |
| Indian dance |
| Indians of North America |
| Social life and customs |
| Landscape |
| Weapons |
| Crowds |
| Men |
| Women |
| Sports |
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