Painting On Rawhide War History
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
label: Collection Date
content: 1890's
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PAINTING ON RAWHIDE IN TWO ROWS, 3 MOUNTED WARRIORS AND ONE AFOOT IN TOP ROW; 3 MOUNTED WARRIORS AND 2 BEARS IN BOTTOM ROW. THE FIGURES ARE SKETCHED FIRST IN PENCIL (SEE UNFINISHED HORSE LOWER LEFT) AND PAINTED OVER. STYLE SIMILAR TO LATE 19TH CENTURY KIOWA EXAMPLES COLLECTED BY MOONEY. THIS DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN ENTERED IN GLENNAN'S CATALOG."
label: Notes
content: Attributed to Silver Horn by Candace Greene; see Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowa (univ of Oklahoma, 2001), p. 264-5.
label: Notes
content: Hide painting. Rectangular sheet of rawhide, outlines of figures drawn in pencil and filled in with heavily applied commercial paint. Painting depicts mounted figures engaged in warfare, one shooting at a bear. Probably by Hangun. 39" (99 cm). Records: This item has not been matched to an entry in the collector's catalog. Associated names: Hangun. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385902-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 99 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 61 cm