Cheyenne Tipi Notes (eBook)

Technical Insights Into 19th Century Plains Indian Bison Hide Tanning

Jaime Jackson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
32 Seiten
James Jackson Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-7333094-1-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Cheyenne Tipi Notes is about a detailed description by anthropologist and ethnographer James Mooney of Southern Cheyenne women tanning cow hides for a historic reproduction of a 19th century hide tipi, between April 28th and June 2nd, 1903, at the Darlington Indian Agency, Oklahoma Territory. What sets this historical record apart from others is that the tipi still exists, perfectly preserved but buried away and virtually forgotten in the underground artifact catacombs of the Chicago Field Museum 115 years later. An experienced tanner himself, author Jaime Jackson not only found Mooney's extant notes at the Smithsonian Institution, and then transcribed them, but found his way to the Field Museum to examine the tipi himself. Putting the two together, Jackson has disentombed and interpreted what happened a century ago, bringing back to life an ancient craft that was central to Plains Indian culture. Cheyenne Tipi Notes is a companion monograph to Jackson's related work, Buckskin Tanner, which provides a step by step account of Plains Indian tanning, including what Indian tanners did to prepare bisonhides for clothing and their tipis.

Inhalt

Preface: Historical Notes 6

Introduction 10

Transcription Key 13

Page 1 “Hide Dressing” 15

Page 2 “Dressing” 17

Page 3 “Hides” 19

Page 4 “Hides” 21

Page 5 “Hides” 23

Page 6 “Hides” 25

Postscript 26

Image credits 29

Buckskin Tanner 30

About the Author 31

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
• Schlagworte: American Indian Tanning • Bison • bison tanning • brain tanning • Buckskin • buffalo • buffalo robes • buffalo tanning • fish oil tanning • Hide tanning • marine oil tanning • smode tanning • tepees • Tipis
• ISBN-10: 1-7333094-1-1 / 1733309411
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7333094-1-7 / 9781733309417