The lot features a fabulous circa 1890 Ghost Dance Shirt polychrome painted muslin from the ex-Yankton Museum Reverend Joseph Ward and Jim Aplan collections. The shirt shows documented Ghost Dance movement symbols and iconology including the waterbird, five-point stars Morning Stars, crescent moon showing mineral pigment coloring of red, blue, black and yellow. The shirt is crafted of old muslin trade clothe with red stroud neck trim and is known as a documented “Tunic” style and shows selvedge muslin trade clothe fringe edges with paint remnants. The shirt was part of the one room museum display at the Yankton Indian College Museum in Yankton, South Dakota founded by Reverend Joseph Ward in the late 19th-century. The shirt was on display in the museum collection along with other Ghost Dance Shirts attributed to the Lakota Sioux (including the Ghost Dance Painted Hide Shirt sold by NAAC in July 2023 for $7,000 w/ bp), noted as on display until its closed and sold in 1985. The contents were purchased by Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota, a noted artifacts dealer. Provenance: Collected by Reverend Joseph Ward and displayed in his Yankton Indian College Museum from the early 1900’s to 1985 when it was sold to Jim Aplan of Piedmont, South Dakota. For reference see the Ghost Dance Painted Hide Shirt also from the Yankton Museum which sold in our NAAC July 2023 sale for $7,000 (w/ bp) and the Ghost Dance Polychrome Painted Dance Shirt 1890 ex-High Noon sold by NAAC in September 2020 for $6,700 (w/ bp) (photos of both for reference are shown). Measures overall 45-inches high by 52-inches wide.