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Big Nose and His Painted Elk Skin

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ID9216773
AuthorsArni Brownstone (Royal Ontario Museum, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume52
Issue202
Pages195-207
Publication date2007-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1179/pan.2007.014
OpenAlexW1972947025
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited3

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries a number of veteran Plains Indian warriors were commissioned to paint their war histories and provide accompanying verbal explanations of the depicted events. These important sources of primary information add significantly to our understanding of earlier, poorly documented war exploit paintings and rock art. As well, a look at the formalistic qualities of these commissioned works against the background of events surrounding their execution tells us much about contemporaneous reservation life and relations between Native Americans and Euro-Americans. The present study centers on the elk skin painting and accompanying explanations which Big Nose, a Piegan chief, was commissioned to execute in 1893-1894

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Painting · Rock art · Spanish Civil War · Visual arts · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Natural History · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History

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