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The Kiowa Pantheon
Silver Horn, Haungooah Native American
Not on view
This painting is the only known depiction of sacred beings from Kiowa religion and myth. Smithsonian anthropologist James Mooney commissioned the work from Silver Horn, one of the most accomplished, innovative, and prolific Plains artists of his time. A trickster named Saynday stands in the center; behind him is Sapoul, a cannibal ogre. On the far left is the deep-river monster Water Buffalo. The painting was unveiled in 1904 at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in Saint Louis.
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