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THBMiniature Plains Hide Tipi w/ Painted Horses, ca. 1890
Lot 55a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
Day 2 of an important 2-day auction featuring exceptional, museum-worthy examples of Pre-Columbian from the ancient Americas, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial and fossils. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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- Lot Description
Native American, Plains, possibly Kiowa or Blackfoot, ca. 1890 CE. A miniature tipi (also tepee and teepee) comprised of stitched antelope and deer hide panels wrapped around long wooden poles decorated with metal bead and horse hair tassels, all arranged to create the traditional cone shape and secured with wooden fasteners. The exterior presents five horses of various colors - yellow, aqua blue and white, russet brown, yellow and aqua, painted in profile and trotting toward the left. Also contributing to its aesthetic is a beautiful dotted aqua blue section that adorns the upper end, and a narrow red band followed by a wider aqua band below the horses. Size: 28" in diameter x 32.75" H (71.1 cm x 83.2 cm)
The Sioux word tipi means "used to live in" - and indeed, these structures were either seasonal or permanent dwellings. When a tipi cover was painted, it was painted before the tipi was actually erected. Traditionally, women erected, maintained, and dismantled tipis and men painted them. Groups particularly known for their painted tipis include the Blackfeet of the Northern Plains and the Kiowas of the Southern Plains. So, this tipi was most likely sewed by women but painted by men.
A larger version of a tipi that featured horses used in battle scenes was the first piece that visitors to "A Song for the Horse Nation" saw when they entered the exhibition at the National Museum of the American Indian in October of 2011.
Provenance: private Glorieta, New Mexico, USA collection
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#149254Some areas of loose stitches; a few missing wooden fasteners; a few missing horse hair/metal tassels to upper ends of tipi poles; a few minute holes to the hide but most of the perforations were intentional, created at the lower ends for staking the tipi to the ground. Deer hide shows expected aging (darkening, staining, and slight tears) and painted horses show slight fading, but are still quite vivid.Condition
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