Eastern Shoshone Painted Hide

Estimate

18,000 - 22,000 USD

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Description

elk hide, paint

depicting a typical dance scene, probably a Sun Dance, with a buffalo head surmounted by an eagle, its wings outstretched, the open field with a tipi, dancers in a variety of postures, equestrian figures and buffalo; attributed to Cadzi Coty.

Provenance

By descent from the present owners' grandfather, who acquired the hide in the 1920s in Wyoming

Catalogue Note

Historically, hide painting was an important tradition amongst the tribes of the Plains. Cadzi Coty continued this tradition into the early reservation period and was known to have painted at least a dozen hides for commercial trade. A comparable example, dated 1890-1900, can be found in the Minneapolis Museum of Art, accession no. 85.92.