Historical Painting On Elk Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 8 May 1915
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. George H. Palmer
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Estelle H. Palmer
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "COLLECTED BY MAJOR GEORGE HENRY PALMER, U.S. ARMY." FIGURATIVE DECORATION. IDENTIFIED AS PROBABLE TIPI LINING, PROBABLE CHEYENNE BY IMRE NAGY. - F. PICKERING 5-7-1997
label: Notes
content: Pictographic scenes of warfare painted on a hide tipi liner.
label: Notes
content: Handwritten notes on tag adhered to hide reads: "Historical Painting Representing the Battles [of] Ma-ka-pea-lu-ta or The Spider A Sioux Chief." Although the tag attributes the hide to the Sioux, the design on the shield of the main figure is Cheyenne, per Imre Nagy. During the Red Cloud War, a northern alliance of both Lakota and Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho were raiding on the Bozeman Trail, where Palmer was posted.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 23 Dec 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: 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: 058289
label: USNM Number
content: E287126-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Lining
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 102 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 246 cm