Subject: wic'âša 'shirt wearer' warrior
Culture: Lakota Sioux
Setting: Plains wars, northern Great Plains 1862-1890
Object: jewelry
* Fort Worth Museum of Science and History > Native American Gallery
"Lakota Dentalium Shell Necklace
Shell, beads, thread, Early 20th century"
* Fort Worth Museum of Science and History > Native American Gallery
"Lakota Hair Pipe Necklace
Hairpipe, thread, Early 20th century"
* Fort Worth Museum of Science and History > Native American Gallery
Hairpipe, beads, rawhide, bear claws, Early 20th century"
* Fort Worth Museum of Science and History > Native American Gallery
Cloth, fur, grizzly claws, beads, rawhide, Early 20th century"
* Carnegie Museum of Natural History > Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians
"Preparing for a Date
When they went courting, young men lavishly decorated themselves to attract young women.
A man's sister would dress his long hair, combing it with a brush made from a porcupine tail and painting the part in the hair. Small decorated bags held the vermilion body paint."
* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Wiyohpiyata - Lakota Images of the Contested West
"BONE BREASTPLATE This bone 'hair pipe' breastplate is attributed to Big Mouth, an Oglala band leader active during the 1860s. Big Mouth was a 'peace chief' who kept his people close to Fort Laramie and signed an important treaty there is 1868. Like silver hair disks, this form of breastplate was first popularized by southern Plains men such as Kiowas and Comanches and was en vogue among Cheyennes and Lakotas during the mid-nineteenth century."
