Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Wounded Knee #III
Arthur Amiotte Native American
Not on view
On December 29, 1890, at Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the 7th Cavalry of the U.S. Army—General George Armstrong Custer’s reconstructed command—killed at least 150 Lakota men, women, and children. Arthur Amiotte’s great-grandfather Standing Bear (1859–1933) lost his wife and baby daughter in the massacre. Through historical photos, his family’s oral history, colored drawings, and newspaper clippings, the artist tells the tragic story that ended the dream for new life promised by the Ghost Dance.
This image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.
