Painted skin. Probably commercially tanned cowhide. Common Blackfoot painting pattern; such symbolic designs functioned in part to protect the health and fortune of the owner and his family. Top dark band: night sky. 2 groups of circles: Pleiades and Ursa Major constellations. Bow design at back: Morning Star.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Cluny, Alberta, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Alberta; Cluny
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
4.1 Dwellings and Furnishings
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Associated with 2-5668, 5669, 5266.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 14 feet
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971" References: The Indian Tipi, Laubin; also see text in acc. env.
Loans:
S1973-1974 #69: Art Gallery (UC Santa Barbara ) (March 19, 1974–July 29, 1974)