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Sioux Indians performing the Ghost Dance - Native American Indian dancers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, united States of America, 1894

Camera, William Heise.

Filmed September 24, 1894, in Edison's Black Maria studio.

A group of Sioux Indians from Buffalo Bill's Wild West exhibition demonstrates a dance called a "ghost dance". The group includes both adults and youths. They all begin by facing the camera, but then each of them assumes the appropriate position for the dance.