Paint
- Museum number:
- 2-33901a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210233901a@2cb
- Accession number:
- Acc.1632
- Description:
- Red. (a) Powdered in skin bag. (b) Rock form.
- Donor:
- American Indian Film Project
- Collection place:
- Blackfeet Reservation, Montana
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Montana; Blackfeet Reservation; Browning
- Culture or time period:
- Blackfoot of US
- Collector:
- American Indian Film Project
- Collection date:
- 1962
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Painting supplies
- Function:
- 1.6 Manufacturing, Constructing, Craft, and Professional Pursuits
- Accession date:
- 1962
- Context of use:
- For all kinds of painting. traditionally the paint was mixed with hot water or glue extracted from boiling a beaver tail.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Legacy documentation:
-