id: 109097 accession number: 1927.260 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1927.260 updated: 2023-03-09 11:00:30.752000 Blanket Strip, c. 1900. Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne). Native-tanned hide, glass beads, yellow trade cloth, brass beads, sinew thread; overall: 188 x 10.8 cm (74 x 4 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1927.260 title: Blanket Strip title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1900 creation date earliest: 1895 creation date latest: 1905 current location: creditline: Educational Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne) technique: Native-tanned hide, glass beads, yellow trade cloth, brass beads, sinew thread department: Textiles collection: T - Native North American type: Leather find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 188 x 10.8 cm (74 x 4 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation opening date: 2014-08-26T04:00:00 Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26, 2014-July 29, 2015). title: Native North America Basket Rotation (Native North America rotation) opening date: 2021-12-04T05:00:00 Native North America Basket Rotation (Native North America rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Purchased from Edward S. Sawyer. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This beaded strip was stitched to a hide or a blanket. digital description: wall description: The animal-hide robes basic to Plains attire were often ornamented with quilled or beaded strips, which also were stitched to the blankets that replaced robes. This beaded example carries the cross-in-a-circle motif that symbolizes the world, the four directions, and the sacred center, concepts central to Plains worldviews. In the 1932 words of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) holy man, “[T]he power of the world always works in circles. . . . The flowering tree was at the center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. . . . Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.” --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.260/1927.260_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.260/1927.260_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1927.260/1927.260_full.tif