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Parfleche

Object Number:29-47-184
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Blackfeet
Provenience: United States of America
Montana
Blackfeet Reservation
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Parfleche
Rawhide
Pigment
Height: 33 cm
Length: 137.2 cm
Width: 91.4 cm
Credit Line:Received from various sources, pre-1929

Description

Painted with two rows of barbed triangles, red, blue, yellow and brown.

Rawhide

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Magnificent Objects (06 May 2004 - Mar 2005) View Objects in Exhibition
Plains Gallery ( Apr 1986 - Jun 1999) View Objects in Exhibition
Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition
What in the World (04 Feb 1981 - 23 Feb 1981) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Dockstader, Frederick J. Indian Art in North America: Arts and Crafts.. Greenwich, Connecticut. New York Graphic Society. ed. Fourth Printing. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Fig 207View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] 1972. American Indian Art: Form and Tradition.. New York. E.P. Dutton and Co., Inc. pg. 154 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 139/Cat No 674; Page 112/Fig 168View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Exhibition] Torrence, Gaylord. 1994. The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting.. Seattle. University of Washington Press. pg. 272 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Page 183/No 77View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Catalogue, Collection] 1965. Guide to the Collections, The University Museum.. Philadelphia. The University Museum. pg. 1-167 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 77View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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