Mandan Painted Buffalo Robe, Unknown Artist, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate I
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Mandan Painted Buffalo Robe, Unknown Artist, Sioux Indian Painting, Plate IEntry/Object ID
575/13136A-01Scope and Content
Mandan Painted Buffalo Robe, Plate I, Sioux Indian Painting. Unknown Artist. Robe secured from the Mandan by Lewis & Clark in 1805. It depicts an equestrian battle between the Minnetaree on the one side and the conjoined forces of the Sioux or Mandan and Arikara on the other. (Peabody Museum) 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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Mandan Art, Sioux Art, Buffalo Robe Painting, Native American, Native American Art, Sioux, Plains Tribes, Mandan, Lewis & Clark, Oceti SakowinLegacy Lexicon
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Print, ArtEthnography
Culture/Tribe
Oceti Sakowin
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