Name/Title
Antelope Skin Painting, Chief Washakie, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XIVEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-14Scope and Content
Antelope Skin Painting, Chief Washakie of the Shoshone, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate XIV. The painting was made in 1898 in the artist's 94th year (or others say 104th). It depicts hunting scenes, in one of which a bison is killed with one arrow; in a second with two arrows; in a third the game escaped; in a fourth the bison fell and broke his neck. The record is of several hunts, and the chief represents himself in varying costume. Original owned C.A. Carter of Los Angeles to whom it was presented by Chief Washakie.
Portfolio of Sioux Indian Painting, Paintings of the Sioux and Other Tribes of the Great Plains, Part I, published by C. Szwedzicki, Nice, France, 1938. Limited Edition. No. 361. Introduction and notes by Hartley Burr Alexander. Part. 1 contains Plates I-XXV. Painters of Part 1 are Sioux, Mandan, Shoshone, and Kiowa. On cover of Portfolio--Sioux Warriors on horseback, by Kills Two (Nupa Kie), Oglala Sioux.
Part. 2 contains an addition 25 Plates I-XXV different than Part 1.Collection
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Shoshone Art, Buffalo Robe Painting, Chief Washakie Paintings, Buffalo Hunt, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Shoshone, Chief Washakie, Oceti SakowinEthnography
Notes
The word, Sioux, is referenced. Sioux is considered a slur word according to the Oceti Sakowin peoples.Relationships
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Chief Washakie
