The Native American Ethnographic Collections
in the Division of Anthropology
Painted Muslin Panel
Detail of a painted muslin panel (A1261) in the collection of the University of Nebraska State Museum. It depicts the Lakota attack on the Pawnee at Massacre Canyon, southwestern Nebraska in 1873. Mounted Sioux (Lakota) warrior hangs over the side of a galloping horse to protect himself from bullets. He carries a crooked lance, which looks like a shepherd's crook, which was used as an emblem by several Lakota warrior societies. Painted about 1900. See "American Indian Collections of the University of Nebraska State Museum" by Thomas P. Myers. American Indian Art Magazine (1984) vol. 9, num. 4, pp 50 - 57.
Dr. Thomas P. Myers, Division of Anthropology
