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• Jack Hokeah(Kiowa, born 1902)
• Early 1900s
• Watercolor
• Gift of Anne Evans and Mary Kent Wallace, 1932.153

This painting aptly depicts the religious practices of the Kiowa of the Great Plains. A kneeling man participates in a traditional healing medicine ceremony that draws its power from the buffalo. Buffalos are very important to the Great Plains tribes as a symbol of relentless sacrifice.