Inside Out Library · Explore

The Arapaho (1902)

Kroeber, A. L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960, Jesup Arapaho Expedition (1899-1901) · New York : [Published by order of the Trustees, American Museum of Natural History · leaf 137

An illustration from The Arapaho, 1902, leaf 137
lines, which dividethe rectangle intoeight parts, arebuffalo-paths lead-ing to the river.The red denotesmeat of the buffa-lo, the blue (equiv-alent to black)represents buffalo-hides. Fig. 36 showsthe two sides ofanother food-bag. The pattern on the front is longitudinallybisected by a narrow… … Fig. 36 i.Hii. Design on Bag. Width of bag, 47.2 cm. ^ The black, brown, or dark-blue thin lines with which the colored areas paintedon rawhide are usually bordered, are put on after the colored areas, not before. Theirpurpose seems to be, not to assist the maker in the application of the colors,…

Arapaho Indians · Arapaho art · Symbolism in art · Picture-writing, Indian · Indians of North America

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The Arapaho

More like this