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>Costume Studies
>>1876 Lakota Sioux wic'âša
>>>lance
Subjectwic'âša 'shirt wearer' warrior
Culture: Lakota Sioux
Setting: Plains Wars, 1862-1890
Objectwakakeza lance











* Fort Worth Museum of Science and History > 150 Years of Fort Worth
"Sioux ceremonial lance, decorated with trade cloth and buffalo fur, 
Northern Plains, reproduction."










* Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology > Wiyohpiyata - Lakota Images of the Contested West
"[...] Young men practiced to become expert in handling traditional weapons such as lances (wakakeza) and bows wrapped with the sinew of a bison bull (takintazipa). ..."