This Native American traditional dress Ghost Shirt is full of spiritual beauty. It was made by hand from three colors of soft genuine Buckskin leather. This Ghost Shirt has been artfully trimmed with hand braided buckskin leather that winds around the outline of this strong and durable Native American traditional clothing. It is also adorned with a generous portion of buckskin fringe which tumbles and shimmers when dancing. This Ghost Shirt is just like the kind worn by the Lakota-Sioux for the Ghost Dance. The Ghost Shirts hold a lot of spiritual significance for the Lakota-Sioux. This one is 21" wide from shoulder to shoulder and 52" in length at the longest point. It'll fit a Size 15 for Men and a Size 4 to 8 for a woman. This ghost shirt does not appear to have been worn and is like new. This is your starter Ghost Shirt. Add a great paint job, some beads, horse hair, or squirrel skulls and you will have a fantastic Ghost Shirt. Most Ghost Shirts of this quality with all the extra dressing bring in $1800 to $2500 at Indian auctions.

The Ghost dance is a variation of an ancient traditional Native American dance known as the Circle Dance or Round Dance. Like other Native American dances, it served many spiritual purposes as well as bringing the community together. The Ghost Dance is a circle dance that focussed on embracing the ways of the past and rejecting some of the negative influences of white people in a peaceful way. This included creating a connection to ancestors or the dead and trying to end the mourning of those that have more recently past. A Native American shaman named Wovoka, who was a member of the Paiute Tribe, started the Ghost dance as part of his movement to help Plains Indian Tribes to recover and heal from the many problems and changes they faced in the second half of the 1800's. It quickly spread throughout many Native American tribes.

"The first peace...is that which comes within the souls of men when they realize their [relationship] with the universe and all its Powers...is really everywhere, it is within each of us." (Oglala Lakota)

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