“The Rockwell Museum has a new addition to its Native American Gallery. It’s a painted elk hide estimated to be about 100-years-old. The painting on the hide shows a visual record of a traditional buffalo hunt, and what would have happened back at the camp once the hunt was over.” M. Ross, My Twin Tiers News”
Rockwell’s New Elk Hide
“It’s believed to have been made by Washakie or one of his followers – a famous artist in the Shoshone tribe. The museum says the work was made during captivity on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.
Chief Washakie, Shoshone
‘One of the most fascinating aspects to me is this division of labor that you see depicted on the hide that is really split along gender lines,’ Rockwell Curator of Collections said.
Members of the Shoshone tribe
There were very specific jobs that men would have done and very specific jobs that only the women would have done.
Elk Hide Robe Shoshone, 1900 The Brooklyn Museum
hide painting by Shoshone Chief Washakie Buffalo Hunt
The museum also has an activity for families where children can trace symbols of the Indian nation on a paper hide to illustrate events during their own year.”
