Vintage Painted Hide with Beaded Blanket Sash, #1768

$ 2,500.00

Vintage Painted Hide with Beaded Blanket Sash, #1768

Description: Vintage Painted Deer Hide with Beaded Blanket Sash, #1768. Hide painting is a traditional Plains Indian art form featuring geometric, battle and hunting exploits, "winter counts", and designs inspired by visions and dreams. Although this painted deer skin robe is of a more Southwestern origin and is also contemporary. Hide Paintings utilize traditional imagery and designs - geometric's designs (the "Feathered Sun"), pictographs (buffalo hunts and battle scenes), "winter counts", as seen in museums.

Dimensions: 41 x 41.5 inches

Condition: Excellent for its age.

Provenance: Private Wyoming Collection.

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