Sun Dance Pledgers
Cheyenne
Photograph by Edward S. Curtis
Copyright 1911

The Sun Dance - a vision quest ceremony - consists
of fasting, praying, and dancing to gain physical,
mental, and spiritual power through self sacrifice.
by skewers which are hooked through their chest
muscles. This religious ritual symbolizes their
relationship to the supernatural.

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