BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 



BULLETIN 195 PLATE 21 



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Peter LeClaire (PLC), the Ponca historian, a, Wearing a HedtlJkn costume of the "Straight 

 dance" type. The vest is Teton Dakota work. (Photographed in 1951.) b. Wearing 

 a buffalo headdress with a costume of the "Straight dance" type. (Photographed at 

 a Dakota Grass dance held at Okreek, S. Dak., in 1949.) c, With the Northern Ponca 

 Heduska drum, last used in the 1930's. (Photographed in 1949.) d, With the late 

 chiefs Whiteshirt and Birdhead, at one of the last Northern Ponca Hedilska dances, held 

 near Niobrara, Nebr., in the late 1930's. (Photograph courtesy University of Nebraska 

 Laboratory of Anthropology.) 



