Composite Indigenous Genres: Cheyenne Ledger Art as Literature

Low, Denise

doi:10.1353/ail.2006.0027

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“…Given this narrative and genuinely biographical content, the role of biographic‐tradition artworks as authentic historical documents produced by Indigenous peoples is paramount (Blish and Bad Heart Bull ; Low ; Lycett and Keyser ; Wong ). Instructively, “picture writing” was a term used commonly by early non‐Indigenous commentators on these artworks who also fully understood their chronicle character (e.g., Denig [] 1930, 603; MacLean ; Mallery ; McAdams ; McClintock ).…”

Section: Introduction: Biographic‐tradition Artwork and Their Connecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time's Arrow: Toward a Social History of Crow Biographic Art Using Seriation and Multivariate Statistics

Lycett

Keyser

2019

American Anthropologist

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Biographic artworks produced by Historic-period Plains Indian warriors can be viewed as genuine historical documents, detailing important events in their lives. This is especially true because these documents contain a genuinely narrative component, telling their stories as much as depicting them. However, for individual lives to create a broader social history, they must be connected with the lives of others, especially over a temporal span. Here, we begin the task of building a chronological framework for Crow (Apsáalooke) biographic artworks based on multivariate statistical analysis and seriation analysis of their content. Our research not only allows five undated artworks to be better placed in chronological context but also reveals the changing pattern of stylistic features in these artworks during the turbulent decades of the nineteenth century. [biographic art, Plains Indians, cultural traditions, Native American art] RESUMEN Las obras de arte biográficas producidas por guerreros indígenas de las Llanuras del período histórico pueden ser vistas como documentos históricos genuinos, que detallan importantes eventos en sus vidas. Esto es especialmente verdadero porque estos documentos contienen un componente genuinamente narrativo, contando sus historias tanto como representándolas. Sin embargo, para crear una historia social más amplia, las vidas individuales deben estar conectadas con las vidas de otros, especialmente sobre un lapso temporal. Aquí, empezamos la tarea de construir un marco cronológico para las obras de arte biográficas de los crow (Apsáalooke) basado en el análisis estadístico multivariado y el análisis de seriación de su contenido. Nuestra investigación no sólo permite a cinco obras de arte sin fecha estar mejor situadas en un contexto cronológico sino también revela el patrón cambiante de características estilísticas en estas obras de arte durante las décadas turbulentas del siglo XIX. [arte biográfico, indígenas de la Llanuras, tradiciones culturales, arte nativo americano]

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Section: Introduction: Biographic‐tradition Artwork and Their Connecmentioning

confidence: 99%