Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse sic.

by Karl Bodmer

$60,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Bodmer's most famous portrait and the greatest image to emerge from the picturing of the American West. The portrait has a great sense of immediacy, intensity, and movement; a moment in time is captured, when we look away the Dog Dance continues. Péhriska-Rúhpa dances in his regalia as a principal leader of the Dog Society of his village. The white tips on the glossy black feathers of the headdress indicate the attachment of a tiny down feather to the point of

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