Buffalo Robe
| Object Number: | NA3985 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sihasapa Lakota |
| Provenience: | United States of America South Dakota Standing Rock Reservation |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Date Made: | 1882 |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buffalo Hide Pigment |
| Length: | 320 cm |
| Width: | 235 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from James H. McLaughlin, 1911 |
Description
Painted. Large central sun symbol, red, blue, green, and yellow. Feathered circle pattern.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
Bibliography:
| [Catalogue, Exhibition] Maurer, Evan M. 1992. Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life.. University of Washington Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 288 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Catalogue, Collection] Williams, Lucy F. 2003. Guide to the North American Ethnographic Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 61, pl. 64 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
| [Chapter] Grant, Lynn A., and Gleeson, Molly, and Owczarek, Nina, and Petersen, W. C., and Wierzbowski, William S., and Owczarek, Nina. 2017. "A rare reference resource: five Lakota painted buffalo robes from Standing Rock Reservation". Engaging Conservation; Collaboration across Disciplines. London. Archetype Publications Ltd. pg. 219-230 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: Figure 4 | View Objects related to this Actual Citation |
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