Tipi cover model

Museum number:
2-4912a
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa and Southern Plains tribes
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1897
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Models (concepts)
Function:
5.7 Objects made for sale, souvenirs, models, and reproductions
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Loans:
S1979-1980 #63: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (April 22, 1980–August 29, 1980)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tipi cover model, accession number 2-4912a, described as Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tipi cover model, accession number 2-4912a, described as Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tipi cover model, accession number 2-4912a, described as Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tipi cover model, accession number 2-4912a, described as Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Tipi cover model, accession number 2-4912a, described as Painted buckskin tipi model cover with shield; paintings consist of men's heads, feathered spears, men on horseback; use black, blue, yellow and orange; shield: buckskin over rawhide, yellow with green dots; decorated with feathers and animal hair bundle tied to red cloth; shield tied to tipi with buckskin; top of tipi is sewn with sinew.

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