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C.1850?-1900. This cut-down deer skin hide painting depicts seven battle scenes of Chief Washakie. It may correspond to an 1893 interview with Washakie recorded by Captain Patrick H. Ray in , an acting Indian agent on the Wind River Reservation. All of the events mentioned by Washakie are raids on Blackfeet camps and warriors that took place in Montana before 1850. The provenance with this painting suggests the following order for the events, beginning at the top left: 2, 3, 4, 6 and then across the bottom from the left; 1, 5, 7. There is some possibility that this may be a painting by Chief Washakie. Click here or on the hide for a close-up view of one of the scenes. Accessioned in 1930. Cat. No. 16.4845, NMAI, Suitland, Maryland. |
