Sioux Encamped on the Upper Missouri, Dressing Buffalo Meat and Robes
1832
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 28.6 × 36.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137342
“The Blackfeet and the Crows, like the Sioux and Assinneboins, have nearly the same mode of constructing their wigwam or lodge . . . These lodges, or tents, are taken down in a few minutes . . . when they wish to change their location, and easily transported to any part of the country where they wish to encamp; and they generally move some six or eight times in the course of the summer; following…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.
Registry history
- 1832 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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