Hand drum painted with two black faded birds @ 1890 Lakota
spine chills
Tiny sky blue beaded moccasins, one turned sole up to boast beaded bottom @ 1890 Lakota
flesh crawls
Rawhide rectangular box, cream colored background with red, blue, green, and yellow diamonds @ 1890 Lakota
breath quickens
Beaded long arm gloves, white with blue and red decoration @ 1890 Lakota
pulse catches
Boy’s vest, red cloth with delicate white flower print inside, outside white beaded ground for warriors, horses, feathered head-dresses, guns @ 1890 Lakota
no boy would give this up to a ‘collector’
Women’s moccassins—white beads, blue triangle shapes, flap covers tongue, left toe pointing inward @ 1890 Lakota
what woman would leave these behind?
Did all travel to Portland, Oregon in these bags @ 1890 Lakota?
far, far way from Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota all these Lakota circa 1890
December 29th….