EDWARD SHERIFF CURTIS, Sia Buffalo Dancer, 1925, SOLD

11.5 x 15.5″

SOLD

Edward Sheriff Curtis. Vintage photogravure on Japanese tissue. Plate 560. Volume 16. 

The Buffalo dance of the Keres is almost exactly the same as that of the Tewa. The performers are two young men with head-dresses of buffalo-hair and horns, and a girl wearing the usual female costume and a pair of small horns. The head of the hunters’ society plays the part of guard. The dance is very strenuous, and the simulated actions of the buffalo are quite realistic and readily comprehended by the spectator.