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title: Last ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-ghost-dance-free-silver-1896/
description: 'Puck centerfold cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 4 November 1896 (election eve): Bryan, Sewall, Watson, Altgeld, Teller, Peffer, Jerry Simpson, Bland…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** 1896 Puck cartoon with a period caricature of Native Americans. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Last ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/puck-ghost-dance-free-silver-1896.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/puck-ghost-dance-free-silver-1896.jpg)

# Last ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)

Puck centerfold cartoon by Louis Dalrymple, 4 November 1896 (election eve): Bryan, Sewall, Watson, Altgeld, Teller, Peffer, Jerry Simpson, Bland, Stewart, Jones and others, drawn as Native American dancers around a campfire labelled 'Repudiation', 'just before being sent to the Salt River Reservation'. The Native imagery borrows the stigma of the Ghost Dance and uses period racial caricature.

[← Well protected (Puck)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/puck-well-protected-mckinley-1896/) [Homenagem da Revista Illustrada aos gloriosos vencedores de Canudos (Tribute of the Revista Illustrada to the Glorious Victors of Canudos) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/homenagem-vencedores-de-canudos-revista-illustrada-1897/)

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- [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account.
- [Passional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passional-christi-antichristi-emperor-kisses-pope-1521/) (Electoral Saxony · 1521 · Name-calling, Card stacking)
- [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers.
- [Ondersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ondersoeckt-de-geesten-de-witt-devils-1672/) (Dutch Republic · 1672 · Scapegoating, Name-calling)
- [The Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/highlanders-medley-duke-triumphant-1746/) (Great Britain · 1746 · Name-calling, Transfer)
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- [The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/revere-bloody-massacre-king-street-1770/) (Province of Massachusetts Bay · Mar 1770 · Name-calling, Card stacking). Content note: Hand-coloured engraving of bloodied dead and wounded colonists after soldiers fired on a crowd.
- [Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dom-quichotte-moulin-des-abus-1791/) (France · 1791 · Name-calling, Transfer)