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COURTING: Two Women Wrapped in First-Phase Chief's Blanket Court Two Men on a Black Horse

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Horizontal COURTING: Two Women Wrapped in First-Phase Chief's Blanket Court Two Men on a Black Horse The two women on the right wear red facepaint. The one on the far right has hair that falls behind her. She wears a dark dress with inset dark stroud cloth panel. Her leggings are red. The other woman wears a blue dress with blue panel visible. Her leggings are marked with blue, and she has three stripes (trails) around her ankles. The men wear a red blanket around their midsections. Both men wear German silver hairplate ornaments that reaches almost to the ground and each has two red streamers. The man in front wears a red shirt and holds the reins with his left hand. One wrapped braid falls down his shoulder. Two strands of beads are around his neck. His breechclouts and one visible legging are dark stroud cloth with one vertical stripe of white (undyed selvedge edge). The other man holds a bone quirt (see Petersen 1983: 294, fig. 26), raised over the horse�s rear. The man wears a dark cloth shirt with a beaded strip down the center, with blue and red. He wears identical leggings but red breechclout. The horse is dark except for face and hooves. Its loose tail is raised slightly.


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Provenance: Drawn in 1879 by Northern Cheyenne leader Wild Hog (incorrectly denoted as "Hagetta" in the text) ...

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Plate No: 53
Page No: 57
Media: Lead pencil; black, blue and red crayon
Dimensions: 13x9 cm, single column
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The Sch�yen Collection. London and Oslo. http://www.schoyencollection.com/aboutus.html
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