Vertical COURTING: A Couple in Red-Dotted Blanket Stand before a Tipi The man on the right wraps his red-dotted (red water color) around the woman, who stands within his arms wearing a first-phase Navajo chief's blanket. A long German silver hairplate ornament reaches from his scalplock to his ankles, and an immature golden eagle feather hangs between the second and third plates. His long braid is wrapped in dark cloth or fur. His leggings are dark with one vertical stripe, and his matching breech cloth flap is edged in white (undyed selvedge ends). Two streamers, perhaps quirt ends, hang down the blanket�s middle.
The woman has her hair pulled back. She wears red facepaint along the vertical hairline, covering half her face. Her legs are visible below his blanket, in red leggings. Her footsteps from the tipi are indicated by dashes. This may be a private tryst, without chaperone.
The tipi is outlined in blue on the right-hand side and pencil on the left. The poles and smokehole flap are outlined in blue. A vertical panel of red-dotted decoration is inset into the tipi, slightly left of center.