Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1891 — A GHOST SHIRT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A GHOST SHIRT.

VFofrn by Sitting Bull's Daughter at Time of the Old Man’s Death. The Military Service Institution on Governor’s Island, New York, has received an interesting relic of the fight in which that famous old warrior, Sitting Bull, was killed. It is a “ghost shirt,” and was taken in the capture of Sitting Bull’s village on Dec. 15, by troops F and G of the Eighth Cavalry. It was worn by Sitting Bull’s favorite daughter, Wakau-Nojin (Standing Holy), who was the priestess of the ghost dances. Judging from the size and general form of the shirt, WakauNojin must have been a priestess of

healthy avoirdupois. It is, however, very skillfully put together. A fringe around the border has been formed by cutting slits in the canvas with a knife and then coloring the streamers thus" formed with blue chalk. The only decorations are blue-chalk pictures dancing medicine men and small clusters of feathers here and there.