Photo by Alden Deming 
Scene from a social dance largely participated in by women. Photograph taken among the Black- 
foot Indians, Montana, summer of 1914. The main properties necessary for the dance are the tall 
feather hats. The women in turn dance wearing these hats once around the camp ground until all 
have worn them in the dance. Usually a circle of wagons is formed when the dance takes place out 
of doors. A feast is always given in connection with the dance. The Museum collections are rich in 
dance costumes of the Blackfoot Indians 
Photo by P. E. Goddard 
Assiniboine Indians in a social dance near Battleford, Saskatchewan, 1912. The structure in 
which the dance takes place resembles that used for the Sun Dance, now discouraged if not forbidden 
by the Canadian government 
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