Painted And Beaded Robe
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 May 1927
name: label: Collector
content: Col. Charles H. Heyl
label: Donor Name
content: Charles H. Heyl II
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "BEADED IN STRIPES RED AND YELLOW WITH TUFTS OF RED WOOL AT INTERVALS. PAINTED WITH CONVENTIONAL GEOMETRIC DESIGNS ON REVERSE - VERY WELL DONE - IN BLUE AND RED."
label: Notes
content: Square of hide with beaded stripes on one side and geometric border painted on the reverse.
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 3, p. 88 in 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. Identified there as "Painted and beaded bisonhide, Cheyenne, ca. 1870. Painted on one side with geometric motifs and beaded on the other side in characteristic Cheyenne stripe style." Nagy describes the robe in detail on pp. 86-87: "The robe was collected by Colonel Charles H. Heyl during his military campaigns in the West and was presented to the museum by his son in 1927. On one side it is embroidered with parallel beaded stripes in the four sacred colors of the Cheyenne Beadworkers' Guild: red, yellow, blue, and white. According to the research of Alice Marriott (1956) and Winfield Coleman (1980) these stripes in four colors symbolize nevstanevoo'o, the Four Directions. On the reverse side of the robe we find the ... border of parallel lines in a pattern of white-blue-white-red-white-blue-white. Alternating double trianges and bars decorate the inner edge of the border. The decoration on this large hide conveys the Cheyenne concept of the universe, though in a highly symbolic way. If the border painting with its alternating triangles and protruding bars symbolizes the earth, then the beaded stripes done in four colors on its reverse side show the Four Cardinal Directions, which arrange the created world into an organized whole."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 7 Jul 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: 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: 096777
label: USNM Number
content: E336826-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Robe
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 165 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 178 cm