Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708939

Category: Strip - Blanket Strip

Region: Plains

Tribe: Cheyenne

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Native tanned buffalo hide; blue and white glass pony beads; red cotton cloth, sinew sewn.

Description: Blanket strip is composed of four beaded rosettes and three beaded panels. Designs consist of white bands against a blue background on panels and a four quartered motif in both white and blue on the rosettes.

Dimensions: Length 68 inches 172.8 cm; Diameter of rosettes 9.675 inches 24.3 cm

Provenance:

Lessard Collection SD 988
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Splendid Heritage, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, May 27, 1995 - September 27, 1995
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, October 23, 1998 - October 3, 1999
Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 165

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