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A CHEYENNE PAINTED HIDE MODEL TIPI
of usual form, painted with red, yellow, blue, and black pigments, with a linear "rainbow" along the bottom perimeter and the sides of the entrance, enclosing a circle of animals, including a bear, a wolf confronting a heartline elk, a pair of heartline pronghorns, flanking a rainbow element surmounted by a bird, another heartline elk, and a wolf on the heels of a buffalo, with a concentric diamond surmounted by a bird and a human figure on the back at top, a series of four rosettes on the sides, trimmed with hide thongs and yellow wool yarn, mounted on a frame of cylindrical wood poles
Height: 38 in. (96.5 cm.) overall
of usual form, painted with red, yellow, blue, and black pigments, with a linear "rainbow" along the bottom perimeter and the sides of the entrance, enclosing a circle of animals, including a bear, a wolf confronting a heartline elk, a pair of heartline pronghorns, flanking a rainbow element surmounted by a bird, another heartline elk, and a wolf on the heels of a buffalo, with a concentric diamond surmounted by a bird and a human figure on the back at top, a series of four rosettes on the sides, trimmed with hide thongs and yellow wool yarn, mounted on a frame of cylindrical wood poles
Height: 38 in. (96.5 cm.) overall