Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC9311004

Category: Case - Rawhide Case

Region: Plains

Tribe: Blackfoot

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1875

Materials: Buffalo rawhide; native tanned buffalo hide fringe; paint.

Description: Cylindrical rawhide case is painted with two hourglass forms in blue, red and green flanked at each end with triangles in similar colors. Tanned hide lacing and fringe around top and bottom and along the side.

Dimensions: Length 23 inches

Provenance:

James Hooper Collection, #1586
Marvin Lince, Tualatin, Oregon
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

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:

Phelps, Steven, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa and Americas - The James Hooper Collection, Hutchinson, London, 1976, Plate 197, Item #1586
Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 118

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