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Hopi Corn Dance40.90

Also known as Lewis Lomay.(1913-1996) Native American watercolor painting, depicting scenes from everyday life and ceremonial dances, arose in the 1920s, stimulated by growing interest among white patrons. Drawing from a long tradition of painted hides, pottery, and wall murals, artists incorporated native painting styles with the European-derived medium of watercolor to create a new Native American art form. At the heart of this movement were various self-taught artists from the southwestern United States, particularly from Hopi and Pueblo cultures. In 1930 the Brooklyn Museum was one of the first museums in the country to feature an exhibition of watercolors by Native American painters from the Southwest. Here Louis Lomayesva (b. 1913) depicts the dancers and drummers of the Hopi Corn Dance. Representing life , corn is the most important symbol for the Hopi. Like many of his contemporary Native American watercolor artists watercolorists, Lomayesva omitted the background in his images , thereby emphasizing the figures while adding a timeless quality. At the same time, his paintings mirror reality, as seen in the fine details of the woven designs on the dancers' shawls and belts.

Material
watercolor on paper
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Buffalo Robe07.467.8224

Museum Expediton 1907, Museum Collection Fund

Culture
Arapaho and Hopi-Tewa Pueblo
Material
buffalo hide and pigment
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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DollX885

Doll with horsehair braids decorated with blue and white streamers. Buckskin dress with a green, white, blue, and red belt with buckskin boots. Lovely big feet where the beadworker probably used left over beads as they are many colors. She wears long, dangling beaded earings.

Culture
Plains, Lakota and Sioux
Material
cloth, buckskin and bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Drawstring Pouch43.201.10

Small hide pouch with beaded bear claw design on one side and different design on reverse that has a puffy from with three triangles arranged aroud the outer rim.

Culture
Crow and Nez Perce
Material
bead, moose hide, sinew and cotton thread
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Spear Case26.792

The object is a spear case that is part of material purcased as belonging to Red Cloud. It has a long tubular hide section at the top and an attached triangular-shaped hide pouch at the bottom. The tubular portion contains cut out geometric patterns and is edged with red and blue woolen cloth that is attached with hide binding. It has two loosely attached beaded hide rectangles trimmed with red woolen cloth and fringed at one end. The front of the pouch portion has blue, white, red and yellow beadwork forming vertical triangular designs in different sizes. It is edged with long hide fringe strips. This type of Crow case was often carried across the saddle of women to honor their husbands as seen in historical photographs. They are still made today for the same purpose and are an important part of Crow regalia.

Culture
Crow, Oglala, Lakota and Sioux
Material
hide, bead, wool and cloth
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Sewing KitX1126.13

Probably Lakota because they were major quill workers, the bladder bag contains many dyed porcupine quills.

Culture
Lakota and Sioux
Material
animal bladder, bead, porcupine quill and sinew
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Sewing KitX1126.12

Possibly Lakota although many Plains women used such bags. . Women would use this small bladder pouch. It has bugle and basket type beads. It is holding a mixture of dyed and natural porcupine, very nice quills for sewing.

Culture
Lakota and Sioux
Material
animal bladder, bead, porcupine quill and linen thread
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Knife Sheath, Part of War Outfit26.788

Sheath for a large knife of rawhide partly painted red with beaded decoration in white, orchid, blues, red and yellow. The sheath is also studded with a few nails along the edge. A triangle is cut out from the hide on one side. This is part of the group purchased as belonging to Red Cloud.

Culture
Oglala, Lakota, Sioux and Crow
Material
rawhide hide, pigment, bead and nail
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Quilled Fringe50.67.34

This fringe is made from a partially tanned strip of buffalo hide that is wrapped at the top with bird quills. Several lines of this quill wrapped fringe combine to form repeated blocks of color. Usually quillwork comes down longer. The top of the quilled section has a row of white beads that resemble olivella shells.Usually quillwork comes down longer.From left to right the blocks are: blue, black, and brown (perhaps once orange) repeated in sequence. .The shell beads are unusual and the porcupine quill and white beads come from over in the Minnesota area. It is too wide for a pipe bag. Possibly Mandan-Hidatsa area or Sioux.

Culture
Sioux and Mandan Hidatsa
Material
buffalo hide, buckskin, porcupine quill and shell bead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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Red Inlaid Double Pipe Bowl50.67.100e

Probably Eastern Sioux. Possibly made for trade as no evidence of use. This is a double pipe bowl made from red catlinite or pipestone with lead inlay at the pipe end and a serrated point at the bowl end.

Culture
Sioux and Chippewa
Material
catlinite and lead
Holding Institution
Brooklyn Museum
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