Painting On Buffalo Skin
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1870 to 1876
name: label: Collector
content: Gov William F. Arny
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: BORDER AND HOURGLASS DESIGN (JOHN C. EWERS, PLAINS INDIAN PAINTING, 1939, P. 68).
label: Notes
content: Geometric design of border and hourglass type painted on a buffalo robe. Plains Indian.
label: Notes
content: From card: "Resembles early Comanche painted robes. Collected by Governor Arny in the seventies (1870's). The painting symbolizes prayer for more buffalo. W.F.M. Arny, Governor of New Mexico."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358441-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Hide Painting
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 244 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 305 cm