A Fantasy from the Pony War Dance – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic print of A Fantasy from the Pony War Dance brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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A Fantasy from the Pony War Dance
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Rather than a record of one ceremony, this 1891 print is titled as a fantasy, which signals that its figures were arranged for dramatic effect rather than drawn from a specific dance. The subject, the Pony War Dance, belongs to the horse and warrior traditions of the Plains peoples, where horses carried great social and military value and dances like this often marked war deeds. Popular prints of Native subjects from this period were usually made for general audiences and often reflect the artist's romantic expectations as much as the original practice. Today the work is most useful as evidence of how the public imagined Plains life in the late nineteenth century.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1891 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,088 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-126795 |
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