Tipi cover
date: label: Date created
content: circa 1910
name: label: Culture/People
content: probably Kainai (Kainah/Blood) [Gleichen, Alberta] (attributed)
label: Previous owner
content: Philip Backfat, Sr., Siksika Blackfoot, 1874-1954
label: Previous owner
content: Alphonse Sleigh (Eagle Ribs), Siksika Blackfoot
label: Previous owner
content: Fred Big Tobacco, Kainai (Kainah/Blood) [Gleichen, Alberta]
label: Previous owner
content: Pawel M. Raczka, Non-Indian
label: Donor
content: Carlyn Ring, Non-Indian
notes: label: Collection History
content: Formerly owned by Philip Backfat Sr. (Siksika Blackfoot, 1874-1954); transferred to Alphonse Sleigh (Eagle Ribs, Siksika Blackfoot) before 1938; transferred to Fred Big Tobacco (Kainai [Blood], Gleichen, Alberta) in 1960; inherited by Big Tobacco's wife upon his death in the early 1970s; purchased from her by Pawel M. Raczka (Sun Valley, Idaho); purchased by Carlyn Ring from Pawel Raczka; donated to NMAI by Carlyn Ring in 2006.
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place: label: Place
content: Siksika Reserve; Alberta; Canada
setName: label: See related items
content: Kainai (Kainah/Blood) [Gleichen, Alberta]
label: See related items
content: Kainai (Kainah/Blood) [Gleichen, Alberta]
label: See related items
content: Architecture/Housing
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of the American Indian
identifier: label: Catalog Number
content: 26/5460
label: Barcode
content: 265460.000
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Architecture/Housing
physicalDescription: label: Object Name
content: Tipi cover
label: Media/Materials
content: Cotton canvas, paint
label: Techniques
content: Sewn, painted
label: Dimensions
content: 521 x 150 x 526 cm