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1. Shoshone painted hide
  Balcom’s
description: “One painted elk hide (Shoshoni). Showing
the Sun Dance and Buffalo Hunt.” The Museum of the
American Indian, Heye Foundation, has a painted hide that's
very similar to the one seen in this presentation. The Museum
of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, credits Charles
Washakie, son of the Shoshone leader Washakie, with painting
the depiction of the Sun Dance on elk hide that’s housed
in their facility. “Walk Softly, This Is God’s
Country” (1997:119), a book about the Reverend John
Roberts and his life among the Shoshone and Arapaho, noted
that Charles Washakie painted pictures on elk hides according
to the stories of his father.
The hide is 50 inches in length from the top center to
the bottom center and 68 inches wide from the left center
to the right center. The hide measures 80 inches in length
when measuring from the SW (lower left) to the NE (upper
right) or from the NW (upper left) across to the SE (lower
right). WHC2000.17.26.
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