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"Ceremonial Dance," by Stephen Mopope, oil on plaster, 1939. "Ceremonial Dance" is a celebration of the hunt. The central figure is seated with a buffalo painted on his back while others dance around him creating a composition resembling a frieze. Stephen Mopope, also known as Qued Koi (Painted Robe), was born near Medicine Park, Oklahoma in 1900 and attended St. Patrick's Mission School in Anadarko, Oklahoma. A number of the Kiowa Six artists attended the school where they were taught art by Choctaw nun, Sister Mary Olivia Taylor. Mrs. Willie Baze Lane, an artist from Chickasha, Oklahoma, also provided lessons. The six artists eventually studied art at the University of Oklahoma under the instruction of Dr. Oscar Jacobson and Dr. Edith Mahier. Though the students were not officially enrolled at the University, Jacobson coordinated an exhibition for the artists at the First International Art Exposition in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1928 and the publishing of a portfolio of their paintings in France in 1929.

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