The four men seated on the lower left wear fringed shirts and are among the twelve powerful male beings Black Elk encountered. Upon waking, he “made six sacred shirts according to what these twelve men wore”
A ledger drawing. The caption reads, “Testing the Short Shirt Bullett (sic) Proofs Many Indians Cam to Witness this test.” One person shoots a gun at the other, the other wears a ghost shirt.
A collector’s drawing and notes about the front side of Little Wound's Ghost Dance shirt, with Dragonfly on the upper left. Stars hovering above the earth adorn the rest of garment
