Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony - Softcover

Mails, Thomas E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571780629 ISBN 13: 9781571780621

Publisher: Council Oak Books, 1997

Synopsis

More detailed than any book ever written on the Sioux Sun Dance, Sundancing:The Great Sioux Piercing Ceremony, unveils this long-secret ritual through exclusive photographs, color paintings, drawings, and first-hand accounts of the participants. Thomas E. Mails was the only white man, before or since, invited to witness and photograph every phase of the entire four-day Sun Dance. This is a ground-breaking work-available for the first time in over a decade in this newly designed edition

Sundancing: The Great Sioux Piercing Ritual includes a complete account of the Sun Dances at Rosebud and at Pine Ridge. Frank Fools Crow, the late renowned Sioux holy man and Ceremonial Chief of the Teton Sioux, describes this deeply spiritual ritual in his own words. Other informants include Chief Eagle Feather as well as young participants describing their experiences during the dance.

About this title

Book Description:

An account of the practice of the Sioux Sun Dance, to which the author was invited as an observer in 1974 and 1975. The accounts of the history and practice of the ritual, by Mails and by participant Eagle Feather, are illustrated by many b&w photographs--some historical but mostly by the author--as well as the author's detailed b&w drawings and color paintings. The book closes with a sequence of 342 photographs tracing the progression of the entire ritual. 9.5X9.5". Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author:

Thomas E. Mails is the author-illustrator of many best-selling books, including Mystic Warriors of the Plains and Fools Crow: Wisdom and Power. Mails is a renowned authority on Native American history and culture.

Other titles by Thomas E. Mails:
Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace
The Cherokee People: The Story of the Cherokee From Earliest Origins to Comtemporary Times
Spirits of the Plains
Warriors of the Plains
Peoples of the Plains
Creators of the Plains

About this edition

• Publisher: Council Oak Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1571780629
• ISBN 13: 9781571780621
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358