Painted Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: PROVENIENCE NOTE: THIS ARTIFACT WAS ORIGINALLY LOGGED IN THE LEDGER AS "CROW, MONTANA," BUT SUBSEQUENTLY IDENTIFIED AS SIOUX, BY JOHN C. EWERS 2/1978. FROM CARD: "DEPICTS WAR SCENES. CUSTER'S LAST STAND. LOANED TO THE WALKER ART CENTER AUGUST 8, 1972. RETURNED TO THE DEPT. OF ANTHROPOLOGY 1-17-1973. Loaned 06/09/76 to National Portrait Gallery, Returned Oct 30, 1976" Object was lent to the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery for the exhibit "1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions", April 28, 2023 - February 25, 2024.
label: Notes
content: Though this artifact has sometimes been identified as depicting Custer's Last Stand/the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the source of that identification is unknown, and no documentation for this attribution has been located so far.
label: Notes
content: Pictographic scenes of warfare painted on muslin.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 12 Mar 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358425-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Muslin Painting
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 216 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 89 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 91 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 221 cm