The Last Lakota Horse Raid
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.This sculpture represents a Lakota woman of the late 1800s and honors a successful 1879 raid to acquire horses. The figure wears a fully beaded dress depicting six warriors and their horses, hoof marks, and captured horses. In her right hand, she carries a horse stick that would have been made by her husband to honor his favorite warhorse killed in battle. The great warrior White Bull’s account inspired this work.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Last Lakota Horse Raid
- Artist: Rhonda Holy Bear, Wakah Wayuphika Win, Making Beauty with Exceptional Skills Woman (Native American, Sans Arc, Two Kettle, and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux), born South Dakota, 1959)
- Date: 1991
- Geography: United States, North and South Dakota
- Culture: Sans Arc, Two Kettle and Hunkpapa Lakota (Teton Sioux)
- Medium: Wood (basswood), native-tanned and commercial leather, glass beads, pigment, cotton cloth, hair, dentalium shells, abalone, German silver, metal cones, brass tacks, beads
- Dimensions: Height: 72 in. (182.9 cm)
- Classifications: Wood-Sculpture, Beads-Sculpture
- Credit Line: Collection of Joyce Chelberg
- Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing