White Cotton Cloth With Painting On It
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. James M. Bell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PAINTED BY COMANCHE CHIEF. 12/1978 JOHN C. EWERS CONSIDERS THIS TO BE A SIOUX PAINTING OF THE SUN DANCE."
label: Notes
content: Pictographic scenes of warfare, buffalo hunting, and the Sun Dance painted on muslin.The collector's original list indicates that this was painted by Chief Quanah of the Comanche. However, the Sun Dance ceremony that it depicts was not practiced by the Comanche. The style and content of the painting have been identified as the work of Black Chicken (Siyo Sapa), a well-known Hunkpapa/Yanktonai medicine man resident at Ft. Peck, MT during the years that the collector was serving at Northern Plains posts. For comparison, see National Museum of the American Indian 2/3304. It is assumed that Bell obtained the muslin while he was posted at Camp Poplar River.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in: Siyosapa: At the Edge of Art, David Penney, Arts 2019, 8, 148; doi: 10.3390/arts8040148 Fig. 5, 6, 7 - L81
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Jul 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Poplar River, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yanktonai (Ihanktonwana) Dakota, Upper
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Hunkpapa Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 028804
label: USNM Number
content: EL81-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Muslin Painting
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 178 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 259 cm