Object Details
- Culture/People
- Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
- Artist/Maker
- Many Tail Feathers, Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan), 1848-ca. 1931
- Collector
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Previous owner
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Seller
- Christian F. Schuster (Christian Friedrich Schuster/C. F. Schuster), Non-Indian, 1868-1957
- Subject
- Many Tail Feathers, Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan), 1848-ca. 1931
- Bear Head (Kyio-tuka), Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan), ca. 1856-ca. 1935
- Collection History
- Collected by Christian F. Schuster (1868-1957, a collector and amateur archaeologist in Holyoke, Massachusetts) when he lived with the Blackfeet in the 1920s; purchased by MAI from Christian Schuster in 1953.
- Contact Us
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- Date created
- circa 1923
- Catalog Number
- 22/1771
- Barcode
- 221771.004
- Object Type
- Architecture/Housing
- Object Name
- Tipi liner depicting the exploits of Many Tail Feathers
- Media/Materials
- Cotton canvas, paint, metal grommets
- Techniques
- Sewn, painted
- Place
- Montana; USA
- See related items
- Pikuni Blackfeet (Piegan)
- Architecture/Housing
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Record ID
- NMAI_236257
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ws6428d759d-d41e-489a-a633-68898f11ad56
