Painting On Muslin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Jan 1934
label: Collection Date
content: 1896 to 1897
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Thomas Wilson
label: Donor Name
content: Miss Clara D. Abercrombie
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THE LEDGER AND CARD CATALOG SHOW "FORT YATES, SOUTH DAKOTA." FORT YATES AND THE CANNONBALL FARM WERE IN NORTH DAKOTA. (CFS/1995) FROM CARD: "PAINTING ILLUSTRATES INDIANS STEALING HORSES; COLORS ARE BROWN, BLUE, YELLOW, AND PINK. HORSES ARE TYPICAL CHEYENNE STYLE; INDIANS ARE DRESSED PARTLY IN FULL NATIVE REGALIA AND PARTLY IN CLOTHING OF THE WHITES."
label: Notes
content: Pictographic scenes of warfare and horse raiding painted on muslin.
label: Notes
content: The accession file records that the muslin was associated with Cannonball Ranch, Ft. Yates, South Dakota [sic], 1892, presented in memory of Suzanne Abercrombie Wilson. It is likely that the muslin was collected by the donor's brother-in-law Capt. Thomas Wilson, USA, who was posted at Ft. Yates in North Dakota, June 1896 to mid-1897. His wife did not accompany him. Cannonball Ranch was a well-known working ranch with an associated hotel and store, located a short distance north of Ft. Yates and the Standing Rock Reservation. At the time Wilson was in the area, it was owned and managed by Alma Galpin Parkin, who had inherited it from her husband Henry Parkin. She was an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux, the daughter of a Teton/Lakota mother (Eagle Woman) and an American father (Charles Galpin). It is not known who noted on the catalog card that the horses are “Cheyenne style.” It is more likely the piece originated with the Teton or Yanktonai at Standing Rock.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Yates, Cannonball Ranch, Sioux County, North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota) (?)
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yanktonai (Ihanktonwana, Hunkpatina) Dakota (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 127858
label: USNM Number
content: E367924-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Muslin Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 533.4 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 178 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 183 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 536 cm