Tracings of war scenes from a bison robe belonging to Black Crow
Object Details
- Collection Creator
- Mallery, Garrick, 1831-1894
- See more items in
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography
- MS 2372 Garrick Mallery Collection on Sign Language and Pictography / Series 3: Materials on Pictographs and Petroglyphs / 3.4: Correspondence, drawings, and photographs filed by artifact or Winter Count / Black Crow's Robe / Drawing of Black Crow's Robe
- Date
- 1878?
- Container
- Cabinet Artwork
- Archival Repository
- National Anthropological Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Collection Citation
- Manuscript 2372, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Contact the repository for terms of use.
- Scope and Contents
- Representation of a painted buffalo robe, with scenes of the war exploits of a number of men, each identified by a name glyph. Tracing in ink on two lengths of architects linen, adhered horizontally. P. 459, "Picture Writing of the American Indians" by Garrick Mallery, 10th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology for 1888-89, Washington DC 1893.
- Collection Restrictions
- Manuscript 2372 is open for research. Access to Manuscript 2372 requires an appointment.
- Record ID
- ebl-1583874062187-1583874062516-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0