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Offering to the Sun Gods

Scope and Content Notes

Page from an album with photograph pasted onto the paper. Image is of Charlie Russell bronze Indian woman. Pasted on the back is a text panel that reads: 'The piegan Indian mother, following the tradition of the tribe, steps from her teepee at the first streak of dawn and facing East offers her male child to the 'Sun Gods.' This was a piegan Legend, and was considered 'Good Medicin.' Russell modelled this figure in 1902.'

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Title(s): 
Offering to the Sun Gods
Creator(s): 
Unknown
Culture: 
American
Date: 
1902
Materials/Techniques: 
gelatin silver process
Classification: 
Object Type: 
Credit Line: 
Gilcrease Museum/The University of Tulsa
Accession No: 
TU2009.39.7659.5
Previous Number(s): 
D.5.2319; 47212; D.5.2319 (Colorado Springs number)
Department: 
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