Collector Ornament  $36.95/ea         Original  Clay Shield-             Tribal Horses Start @ $45.00
        Approx .size 2" X 2 1/4"                                                                                         Approx. Size 3 X 2 3/4" 

Other Art in Arapaho Collection

Encirclement of Power
approx size 3" X 3"  $35.00
this one sold can order similar

Gilcee Reproductions
Canvas-8X10, 11X14

Medicine Bag-SOLD

Communication Scroll-Sold

New Moon Ceremonial Bowl
approx size 2 1/2" X 3"  $55.00
this one sold can order similar

Arapaho War Shirt Horse

Sandstone Coasters
4"X 4" $10.50/ea

“The stars, circles and crescent moons painted on Ghost Dance garments signify the heavens as the Other World where spirits and ancestors dwell.” Ref-American Indian Frontier

Arapaho Ghost Dance
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Historical Inspiration

“With the rise and spread of the Ghost Dance after 1888, many Plains Indians living on reservations hoped and prayed for a new blessing that would return to them their former way of life.  Garments produced for dancing among the Arapaho of Oklahoma were painted with visionary images that were derived from the traditions of the spiritual painting…The crow is the sacred bird of the Ghost Dance, being revered as the messenger from the spirit world because its color is symbolic of death and the shadow land.  Ghost Dance paintings drew on traditional symbols of the greater cosmos, which had been disturbed by the events of the nineteenth century and which the Ghost Dance promised to restore.” —David. W. Penny, American Indian Frontier

Arapaho Flag Horse