The Stoic
Artist
Joseph Henry Sharp
(American, 1859 - 1953)
Date1914
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 52 1/2 × 61 1/2 in. (133.4 × 156.2 cm)
Frame: 62 5/16 × 72 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (158.3 × 184.2 × 12.1 cm)
Frame: 62 5/16 × 72 1/2 × 4 3/4 in. (158.3 × 184.2 × 12.1 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of Joseph Henry Sharp, 1917
Object number395.23P
DescriptionA Sioux performing a rite of self-sacrifice in the Sun Dance; the figure is laboriously walking with the aid of a walking stick; the skin on the figure's back is pierced and attached to four horse heads being drug on the ground.eMuseum Notes
A Sioux performing a rite of self-sacrifice in the Sun Dance; the figure is laboriously walking with the aid of a walking stick; the skin on the figure's back is pierced and attached to four horse heads being drug on the ground.
"In a supreme grief, like the death of a favorite warrior son, the Indian would cut the muscles of the back, tie the buffalo thongs to them-with several favorite pony heads as the other end, and drag around the hill side from sunrise to sunset, or until the thongs pulled loose-to prove he was a brave man and had the courage and fortitude to face any trouble". - J.H. Sharp
On View
On view
Joseph Henry Sharp
circa 1895
