A tribe of Sitting Bull's Sioux Indians

Three separate scenes depict different acts from the Hippodrome: "Lovers Chase for a Wife," "The Scalp Dance," and "Burning a Prisoner at the Stake." The lovers' chase scene shows a Native American male with feathers in his hair on horseback pursuing a woman with a dark braid and a red dress. Several other indian males are also in pursuit. Teepees stand in the background and a dog runs along, lower, right. On the upper right, a man tied to a wooden stake stands in the flames of a campfire while Native American males holding small hatchets dance in front of him. On the upper left more males holding scalps dance in a circle. Two men sit to the side watching. Teepees stand in the background.

This poster is one of many fine examples of circus posters printed by the Strobridge Lithograph Company of Cincinnati in the early 1880s when American entrepreneur and cultural icon P.T. Barnum first negotiated the merger of his circus to form "P.T. Barnum's and Great London Combined."

ca. 24 1/2" x 31"