painted hides
Native American Hide Painting in Chronicles and Other Documents of the 16th- 18th Centuries
colored dyes, Native American, native artists, Northeast, painted hides, paints, Plains, Southeast, SouthwestBy: RUSLAN YENDRZHIYEVSKYY – The purpose of this work is to gather and, if possible, analyze scattered information about Native American hide painting found in chronicles, reports, diaries, and memoirs of European explorers and travelers from the 16th to 18th centuries. The accounts presented below provide important evidence of this form of native art in…