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Post by grahamew on Mar 23, 2023 13:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by Californian on Mar 23, 2023 15:12:57 GMT -5
there might be more clues in the Col. Welch papers that possibly could be helpful with pinpointing the identity of the original artist of this tipi liner - the website is not that very well organized and unfortunately the images thereon are low resolution www.welchdakotapapers.com/ and ... there is quite a large volume of pages, probably around a couple of hundred
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Post by carlo on Mar 23, 2023 15:36:39 GMT -5
Good work identifying Jaw as the possible artist, all. Might explain the $75k selling price compared to the $10-20k estimate--the buyer may have reached the same conclusion!
I love how Jaw/His Fight emerges as the visual chronicler of the Hunkpapa and Itazipco people; vignettes with different names and exploits in his works shows that he drew on a multitude of stories from the people around him.
Re. the markings on the necks of the horses: since branding wouldn't have been on the horse's neck, but on its thigh, I suspect they were added on the muslin by someone else, same as the names of the warriors. I see many have the letter H, could it be that this denotes a horse? As opposed to a mule?
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Post by grahamew on Mar 23, 2023 15:50:23 GMT -5
Details from the initial sale, including some more names: "SANTA FE, N.M. – Native American art was front and center at Santa Fe Art Auctions through two days of sale February 6-7 as 417 lots crossed the block from contemporary and historic makers. Mediums and forms were wide and far, ranging from works on paper, pueblo pottery, kachinas, basketry and Navajo textiles. “It was a very strong sale, extremely robust,” said Gillian Blitch, president of the firm on her $750,000 total tally. “The collecting area is very strong, we have new demographics really interested in developing Native American arts. Historic to modern – that’s what the sale demonstrates.” The sale’s top lot was found for $90,000 in a pictographic painted muslin tipi liner attributed to Mato Luta (Red Bear), a Lakota Hunkpapa. It dated to the late Nineteenth Century, believed to have been completed at Fort Yates during the final years of the Sioux-Cheyenne campaign. Identified by Christina Burke, curator of Native American art at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were some of the figures, including the heads-of-households Mato Luta (Red Bear), Mehaka [sic - Hehaka] Ciqala (Little Elk), Mato Nape Ska (White Paw Bear) and Kangi Ohitika (Brave Crow). In four sections, the ten-foot-long liner depicted both domestic and battle scenes." www.antiquesandthearts.com/native-american-art-takes-focus-at-santa-fe-art-auction/
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