Pictograph

NA3589

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA3589
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux (uncertain)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Skin | Pigment
Description

Painted calf or deerskin. Painting done in "archaic" style.

Pictographic record on dressed deer-skin. Painted figures of Indians, mounted and on foot, githing with bows and arrows, lances, war-clubs, and guns; horseman shooting bison with arrows; horse.

Length 150 cm
Width 93 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915
Other Number G136 - Other Number

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