20 Jun 1890 Jahr - Painted Elk Hide

Beschreibung:

painted elk hide
Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody)
Eastern Shoshone, Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
served as a narrative, recording history, like the hall of bulls, but would eventually be sold to help himself and the COMMUNITY
shows activities of daily life, Sun Dance (intended to honor the Creator deity for earth's bounty and to ensure that said bounty endured), Wolf Dance/Grass Dance, buffaloes were also added (despite the fact that they were almost exstinct at the time) to symbolixe sacredness