Painting On Rawhide
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN PAINTED ON RAWHIDE ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR A PARFLECHE. PAINTED IN BROWN OUTLINE, FILLED IN WITH RED, BLUE, YELLOW AND GREEN. THE STYLE IS SIMILAR TO USNM CATALOG NOS. 270,075 (BY SAME ARTIST) AND 270,076, SHOWING STRONG WHITE INFLUENCE. ENTERED AS NO. 145 IN GLENNAN'S CATALOG: 'PAINTING ON RAWHIDE BY GOKLITZ [a.k.a. Gokliz], A CHIRICAHUA APACHE OF GERONIMO'S BAND. FIGURES TO LEFT REPRESENT APACHES FIGHTING COMANCHES, THE COMANCHES ALL BEING KILLED. THE APACHES HAVE THE TURNED UP TOE MOCCASINS. THEIR DEVIL DANCE [sic] IS REPRESENTED FIVE MASKED FIGURES, FOUR WITH HEADDRESSES AND THE CLOWN ALSO THE FIRE AND THE MEN BEATING TIME ON A RAWHIDE. A CAVALRYMAN IS SHOWN LOOKING ON AND SOME APACHES ON HORSEBACK TO THE RIGHT.'" See also National Anthropological Archives # 270077.
label: Notes
content: Arden Comanche, Tribal Leader of the Mescalero Apache, states that the description "devil dance" should be referred to as Giha or Mountain Spirit dance.
label: Notes
content: Per Leland Michael Darrow, Tribal Historian for the Fort Sill Apache Tribe, Gokliz was a prisoner with the Chiricahua Apaches, however he himself was White Mountain Apache.
label: Notes
content: This is one of several works in public collections by Frederick Gokliz, a Warm Springs Apache married into the Chiricahua and imprisoned with them in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Three pieces are directly documented to Gokliz, E270075 and National Anthropological Archives # 270077 by inscription on the piece and E385920 by the collector's catalog, all collected at Ft. Sill 1894-1897. Other works attributed to him on the basis of style are: E270076; 2-4817, Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley; and a series in the Ayer collection, Newberry Library. All are from collectors who were at Ft. Sill. Another set of drawings at the St. Augustine Historical Society in Florida by perhaps multiple artists includes images attributed to Gokliz. This set was reportedly produced after the Indian prisoners held there had attended a circus.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Sill, Comanche County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Apache, White Mountain
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385920-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting