Painting On Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Dec 1904
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "A TRIMMED NATURAL DEERSKIN WITH HOLES AROUND EDGE; PART OF HAIR ON; OPPOSITE SIDE PAINTED WITH A THIN-LINED, MOSTLY YELLOW DESIGN SIMILAR TO A SAND PAINTING OF THE SOUTHWEST." BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL DESIGN (REFER TO JOHN C. EWERS, PLAINS INDIAN PAINTING, 1939, P. 12 - 13 & PL. 13).
label: Notes
content: Design identified by John C. Ewers as more typical of Cheyenne. Listed in both accession papers and catalog files as "Kiowa(?)." (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: Notes
content: Design on this hide is discussed by Imre Nagy on p. 86-88 of Nagy, Imre, "The Cosmic Turtle: A Unique Representation of Cheyenne Cosmological Beliefs", pp. 86-95 in Feest, Christian F. 2001. Studies in American Indian art: a memorial tribute to Norman Feder. Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native American Studies. He identifies the border painting with its parallel lines, alternating triangles and protruding bars as symbolizing the earth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa (?)
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: 043633
label: USNM Number
content: E233123-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting