Parfleche
- Culture
- Plateau artist
- Culture
- Nimi'ipuu (Nez Perce) artist
- Date
- c.1890
- Material
- Hide and pigment
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Jewelry & personal accessories, tools & equipment
- Collection
- Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 27 x 13 in. x 3 1/2 in. (68.6 x 33 x 8.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- The Donald Danforth Jr. Collection, Gift of Mrs. Donald Danforth Jr.
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 175:2011
NOTES
Painting this hide while it was still moist, the artist saturated her underlying support with pigment rather than allow it to remain on the surface. To prepare the material for painting, she first scraped and rinsed the hide, stretched it horizontally, and coated it with a glutinous wash.
She painted the flat, stretched hide in specific sections that, when folded to form the envelope here, appear solely on the front-facing panels. The painted sections align to create a diamond that extends across the central opening.
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