Research Catalog

Title

War paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation / Arni Brownstone.

Author

Brownstone, Arni, 1947-

Publication

Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

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Details

Additional Authors

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute, issuing body.

Description

xii, 143 pages : illustrations (some color); 21 x 29 cm.

Summary

"During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians' equivalent to written records. The majority of their paintings documented warfare, focusing on specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives--appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers--were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition. War Paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation is a study of several important war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T'ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T'ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T'ina paintings are considered in the study, as are several important collections of Tsuu T'ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone's study furthers our understanding of Tsuu T'ina pictographic war paintings in relation to the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the richest and most important Native American artistic and literary genres"--

Series Statement

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Uniform Title

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.

Subject

• Sarsi Indians
• Sarsi Indians > Wars
• Indian painting > Prairie Provinces
• Sarsi language > Writing > History
• Sarsi Indians > Material culture
• Indians of North America > Wars > Prairie Provinces
• Indians of North America > Languages > Writing > History
• Picture-writing, Indian > History
• Indians of North America > Material culture > Prairie Provinces
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies
• ART / Native American
• Tsuu T'ina Nation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index.

Contents

Historical background -- Plains Indian warfare -- War exploit painting -- History of the five Tsuu T'ina paintings -- Discussion of the five paintings -- Pictographic translations -- Later Tsuu T'ina paintings -- Tsuu T'ina material culture collections.

Call Number

JFF 15-602

ISBN

• 9780803265219
• 0803265212

LCCN

2014037178

OCLC

894747593

Author

Brownstone, Arni, 1947- author.

Title

War paintings of the Tsuu T'ina Nation / Arni Brownstone.

Publisher

Lincoln [Nebraska] : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians

Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-134) and index.

Added Author

Indiana University, Bloomington. American Indian Studies Research Institute, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-602