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War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)

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During much of the nineteenth century, paintings functioned as the Plains Indians’ similar to written records. Nearly all of their paintings documented warfare, specializing in specific war deeds. These pictorial narratives—appearing on hide robes, war shirts, tipi liners, and tipi covers—were maintained by the several dozen Plains Indians tribes, and so they continue to expand historical knowledge of a people and place in transition.

War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation is a study of several essential war paintings and artifact collections of the Tsuu T’ina (Sarcee) that provides insight into the changing relations between the Tsuu T’ina, other plains tribes, and non-Native communities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Arni Brownstone has meticulously created renderings of the paintings that invite readers to explore them more fully. All known Tsuu T’ina paintings are thought to be within the study, as are several essential collections of Tsuu T’ina artifacts, with particular emphasis on five key works. Brownstone’s analysis furthers our understanding of Tsuu T’ina pictographic war paintings on the subject of the social, historical, and artistic forces that influenced them and provides a broader understanding of pictographic painting, one of the most richest and most essential Native American artistic and literary genres.

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