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Wowapi wakan ptecedan oyakapi kin. Bible history in the Sioux Indian language

Hunt, Jerome · 1897 · Fort Trotten, N.D., Printed at the Indian Mission · 18 pictures

A Bible history printed in 1897 at the Indian Mission in Fort Trotten, North Dakota, by Jerome Hunt, written in the Dakota Sioux language for Dakota readers. The pictures are black-and-white wood engravings with dense hatching, showing biblical scenes in robed figures, with a staff, a kneeling supplicant, and crowds in a flood, offering a designer examples of bold line work for narrative religious subjects.

Dakota language -- Texts · Bible stories, Dakota

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