PAINTING, PICTOGRAPH

Description: BROWN, WHITE, RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLACK. PICTOGRAPHIC HIDE PAINTING DEPICTING KAINAI NATION WAR SCENES. ILLUSTRATED WITH FIGURES OF HORSES, MEN, TEEPEES, BUFFALO SKULLS, WEAPONS (BOWS, SPEARS, ARROWS, SHIELDS). GREEN PAINTED BORDER WITH YELLOW & RED GEOMETRIC DESIGNS. HIDE STRETCHED WITH SINEW TO PELLED WILLOW FRAME. HOLE (12CM DIA) UPPER RIGHT CORNER. WORDS "PICTOGRAPHIC OF INDIAN ART" & "CONRAD CHIEF BODY 1986".

History: KAINAI. MADE IN 1986 FOR MUSEUM. *UPDATE* IN 2014 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT JANE EDMUNDSON CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF ART OBJECTS. THE FOLLOWING BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON THE ARTIST, CONRAD CHIEF BODY, WAS DEVELOPED WITH INFORMATION FROM LETHBRIDGE HERALD ARTICLES ON HIS ARTWORK AND HIS OBITUARY. CONRAD CHIEF BODY, A MEMBER OF THE KAINAI NATION, WAS BORN IN 1937 AND MARRIED THERESA EARLY MORNING CALLER, THE DAUGHTER OF PERCY 'TWO GUN' PLAIN WOMAN, IN 1965. THEY RAISED THREE DAUGHTERS. CHIEF BODY WAS WELL KNOWN IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA AND MONTANA FOR HIS STYLIZED PICTOGRAPH PAINTINGS ON COWHIDE. CONRAD CHIEF BODY PASSED AWAY ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2002, ON THE BLOOD RESERVE. SEE PERMANENT FILE P19820009000 FOR HARDCOPIES OF NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS AND AN EXCERPT ON CHIEF BODY FROM LLOYD JAMES DEMPSEY'S BOOK 'BLACKFOOT WAR ART: PICTOGRAPHS OF THE RESERVATION PERIOD, 1880-2000'. AS WELL AS FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MEANING OF EACH IMAGE DEPICTED IN THE PAINTING.