Buffalo Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 27 Oct 1930
label: Collection Date
content: 1877
name: label: Donor Name
content: Gen. Timothy E. Wilcox
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SHOT BY GEN. WILCOX IN 1877. EXAMPLE OF THE CONVENTIONAL PICTOGRAPHIC ART OF THE SIOUX IN RED, BLUE, WHITE ON A YELLOW BACKGROUND. 2/9/1967 LOANED TO MUSEUM OF PRIMITIVE ART, N.Y. 7/3/1967 LOAN RETURNED." BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL DESIGN WITH CIRCULAR DESIGN IN CENTER (JOHN C. EWERS, PLAINS INDIAN PAINTING, 1939, P. 68, P. 12 - 13 & ILLUS. PL. 13).
label: Notes
content: Geometric design with border and circle painted on a buffalo robe.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 2, p. 87 (under incorrect catalogue number E35101) in Nagy, Imre, "The Cosmic Turtle: A Unique Representation of Cheyenne Cosmological Beliefs", pp. 86-95 in Feest, Christian F. 2001. Studies in American Indian art: a memorial tribute to Norman Feder. Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native American Studies. Nagy identifies it there as "Painted bisonhide, Cheyenne, ca. 1875." On p. 86-87 Nagy identifies the central figure as a "'feathered sun" or shield motif". He identifies the border painting with its parallel lines, alternating triangles and protruding bars as symbolizing the earth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin) (?)
label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 112196
label: USNM Number
content: E351013-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 183 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 244 cm