id:			117303
accession number:	1937.865
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1937.865
updated:		2023-03-09 11:00:30.975000

Blanket Strip, c. 1900. Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne). Native-tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, sinew thread ; overall: 163.8 x 11.4 cm (64 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White 1937.865

title:				Blanket Strip
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creation date:			c. 1900
creation date earliest:		1895
creation date latest:		1905
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creditline:			Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
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culture:	Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne)
technique:	Native-tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, sinew thread 
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Native North American
type:		Leather
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measurements: Overall: 163.8 x 11.4 cm (64 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation
	opening date:   2014-08-26T04:00:00
	<i>Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation</i>. 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
	<i>Native North America Basket Rotation (Native North America rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 4, 2021-December 4, 2022).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

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fun fact:
This beaded strip was stitched to a hide or a blanket.

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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.”
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