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Vol. II · Polytheism
Gnaski
Lakota malicious spirit
a gaunt and dangerous shadow figure haunting the edges of camp at night, his crooked hands spreading sickness and dread
Source attribution
This visual depiction is one of 1,947 in the archive — a creative historical rendering of how Native American has expressed the divine. The depiction is interpretive, not iconographic.