Through war-dancer imagery and its display in expressive culture in the Southwest, Kiowas and others created intertribal arenas that stretched beyond Oklahoma, and Kiowas contributed to the making of a larger intertribal, twentieth-century world. Fancy-dance imagery created a contemporary picture of Kiowa young men that was built from older Kiowa constructions of gender and the popular representation of Plains Indians. Painters forged war-dancer imagery though dance, regalia, paintings, and murals.
Review: The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century edited by Peter Iverson