Ballplay dance - Choctaw

Catlin, George (1796-1872)

Item type:

painting

Date of creation:

1857-1869

Height:

47.3 cm  (18 5/8 in.)

Width:

63.5 cm  (25 in.)

Oval shaped. Measurements given are with cardboard backer.

Technique / Medium:

oil on card mounted on paperboard

Description

Two men playing frame drums, and approximately one hundred men and women dancing. --- From the artist's own catalog: This singular dance is performed at intervals during the night previous to the ball-play, by the players, who are, during the night, in their ball-play dress. Each party dances around their respective byes, and the wives of the players, who have their goods at stake, dance between their ranks.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Frame drum [2598]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 1: National Gallery of Art, Washington , compiled by Terence Ford, Andrew Green and Emilio Ros-Fábregas (New York : Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1986). OCLC 21021340. RILM 1986-219.

RIdIM record id

1815