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A painted hide model tipi depicting the three realms and various battle scenes | Donald Ellis Gallery

Model Tipi

Cheyenne
Central Plains

ca. 1880

hide, paint, porcupine quills, dewclaws

height: 29 ½"
width: 51 ½"

Inventory # P3027

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PROVENANCE

George Terasaki Collection, New York, NY
Lee Lyon, Aspen, CO (acquired 1977)

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2003, pgs. 24-25

RELATED EXAMPLES

American Museum of Natural History, No. 50.1/6500 – See: Visions of the People: A Pictorial History of Plains Indian Life, Maurer, Evan M. Minneapolis Institute of Art, 1992, pl. 244

American Indian Art Magazine, Winter, 1980, page 1 (George Terasaki)

American Indian Art Magazine, Winter, 1984, inside front cover (Martha Lanman Cusick)

Related Publications

2003

2003

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