Skin Tipi Cover - Decorated
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Tribal provenience unknown; considerably less in height, also lighter than the two other skin tipi covers in the museum's collection. Decorated panels encircle bottom and the top sections; decorations consist of paintings of discs in red, each approximately 8" in diameter; a buffalo in black; also an animal resembling a wolf, also in black. Very dry condition; has one considerable tear; should be treated in anthrop. lab. 5/1964 Dr. [John C.] Ewers examined and said it definitely was Blackfeet. Loaned: U.S. Dept. of the Interior June 26, 1964, returned March, 1973." In 2002, the tipi cover was laid out flat for photography. Black and white photo negative numbers 2002-1756, 2002-1758, 2002-1760, and 2002-1762, when put together, show a complete view of tipi cover. 4 x 5 color transparency negative numbers 2002-1757, 2002-1759, 2002-1761, and 2002-1763, when put together, show equivalent complete color view of tipi cover.
label: Notes
content: Painted hide tipi cover, probably made of elk hides.
label: Notes
content: This object is stored rolled.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 29 Nov 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, Not Given, United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E362311-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi
physicalDescription: label: Height - Object
content: ca. 5 m
label: Circumference - Object
content: ca. 12 m
label: Height - Tipi Front Seam
content: 4 m