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The word 'painting' covered all the decorative work done by women of any sort...Geometric designswere especially liked by the Lakota woman, and it is this characteristic that stamps the art work of her tribe...I have seen grandmother sitting on the ground, and while laughing and talking, draw designs upon the earth with merely the idea of making something pretty. Bags, purses, trunks, warbonnet and awl cases, garments, and robes were decorated in beautiful designs and colors. The women, however, never decorated the outside of the tipi nor the shields and war implements of the men. This was left to the men who drew figures of men and animals and objects of nature by which they told of historic events such as travels, battles, captures, and various other exploits.
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Luther Standing Bear...Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933,1978:90-91).
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