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Robes of splendor : Native American painted buffalo hides / with contributions by George P. Horse Capture et al. ; photographs of the hides by Daniel Ponsard.
- Title
- Robes of splendor : Native American painted buffalo hides / with contributions by George P. Horse Capture et al. ; photographs of the hides by Daniel Ponsard.
- Publication
- New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, c1993.
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- Description
- 143 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- For centuries, ornamental robes made of buffalo hide were painted by artists of the various Indian nations. Brought back to the French kings in the eighteenth century, the robes represented here are now housed in the Musee de l'Homme in Paris, and together they make a stunning tribute to a bygone art form. These robes, spectacularly executed and perfectly conserved, offer a pictographic representation of early native American life. As George P. Horse Capture observes in his essay on the craft and history of buffalo hide painting, we see the largely symbolic, complex geometric patterns painted by women contrasted with the more realistic, narrative scenes painted by men, depicting battles and dances. Both kinds of design played an important role in native American society as messages for tribe members as well as for their visitors, and both share a powerful visual appeal. With introductory and historical essays by three experts on Native American art, a preface by W. Richard West, Jr., the director of the National Museum of the American Indian, and over a hundred photographs of the hides.
- Uniform Title
- Parures d'histoire. English.
- Alternative Title
- Painted buffalo hides
- Painted buffalo hides.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- illustrated books.
- Catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Ouvrages illustrés.
- Note
- Produced under the direction of Anne Vitart.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Preface / W. Richard West, Jr. -- Invitation to a Voyage / Michel Waldberg -- From Royal Cabinets to Museums : A Composite History / Anne Vitart -- From Museums to Indians : Native American Art in Context / George P. Horse Capture -- Gallery of Hides / George P. Horse Capture -- Epilogue / Anne Vitart.
- ISBN
- 1565841166
- 9781565841161
- 1565841174 (pbk.)
- 9781565841178 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^93028015^
- OCLC
- 28586730
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library