ARAPAHO INDIAN BED  1892 Original Print 

“The bed of the prairie tribes is composed of slender willow rods, peeled, straightened with the teeth, laid side by side and fastened together into a sort of mat by means of buckskin or rawhide strings passed through holes at the ends of the rods. The bed is stretched upon a platform raised about a foot above the ground, and one end of the mat is raised up in hammock fashion by means of a tripod and buckskin hanger. The rods laid across the platform, forming the bed proper, are usually about 3i or 4 feet long (the width of the bed), while those forming the upright part suspended from the tripod are shorter as they approach the top, where they are only about half that length. The bed is bordered with buckskin binding' fringed and beaded, and the exposed rods are painted in bright colors. The hanging portion is distinct from the part resting upon the platform, and in some eases there is a hanger at each end of the bed”

Illustration for an article on The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney. 

120 year old original print from Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, by J. W. Powell, Director. Washington Government Printing Office 1896

Size of sheet: 11.25” X 7.25".

Condition: CLEAN SHEET. See photos.

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