Tracings of war scenes from a bison robe belonging to Black Crow
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
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content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
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content: MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.4: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by artifact or Winter Count / Black Crow's Robe / Drawing of Black Crow's Robe
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878?
container: label: Container
content: Cabinet Artwork
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
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content: Archival materials
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content: Representation of a painted buffalo robe, with scenes of the war exploits of a number of men, each identified by a name glyph. Tracing in ink on two lengths of architects linen, adhered horizontally. P. 459, "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1888-89, Washington DC 1893.