Tipi Model, Painted
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "CONSISTS OF PIECES SEWN TOGETHER WITH RAWHIDE. TANNED ON BOTH SIDES. COLOR SCHEME IS RED AND BLACK."
label: Notes
content: ORIGINALLY CATALOGUED AS TIPI DOOR COVER, HOWEVER OBJECT IS ACTUALLY A LARGE TIPI MODEL. OBJECT IDENTIFIED BY DR. JOALLYN ARCHAMBAULT AS PROBABLY MADE BY OR MADE FOR GEORGE CATLIN FOR HIS INDIAN GALLERY AND PROBABLY DECORATED BY GEORGE CATLIN (PAINTED DECORATION CERTAINLY APPEARS TO BE AT LEAST IN THE STYLE OF CATLIN). - JOALLYN ARCHAMBAULT 7-29-2002
label: Notes
content: Some of the designs on this tipi model resemble figures in the publication: Catlin, George. Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Conditions of North American Indians: The Complete Volumes I and II: Ilustrated. See Volume1, Figure 65, after p. 148, showing robe of Mato-Tope/Four Bears (Mandan), and Volume 2, Figure 311, after p. 248. Compare also the designs on the Mandan buffalo robe of Mato-Tope/Four Bears in the collection of the Bernisches Historisches Museum, Bern, Switzerland, Accession No. 1890.410.8 (see p. 191 in Maurer, Evan M., Louise Lincoln, George P. Horse Capture, David W. Penney, Peter J. Powell, Angela Casselton, and Candace Greene. 1992. Visions of the people: a pictorial history of Plains Indian life. Minneapolis: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Great Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Unspecified
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E362310-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Model