Alaxchiiaahush/Many War Achievements / Plenty Coups from the series 1880 Crow Peace Delegation

Wendy Red Star

2014

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Chief's Blanket (Third Phase style), Diné (Navajo) people, Southwestern Region, Native American, wool and aniline dye
Black and white photograph of four Native American women wearing jingle dresses and face-covering bandanas, blurred Mount Rushmore in background.
Artist-manipulated digitally reproduced photograph by C.M. (Charles Milton) Bell; subject is Peelatchiwaaxpáash / Medicine Crow (Raven) seated, full figure, three-quarter view; elements of regalia outlined in red, and text annotations in red radiate from figure.
Crudely made, several strands of red-dyed bark produce colored bands. Hole in the bottom.