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BIRDS. Seven Orange (or Red) Birds (Eagle); Six Blue Birds (Eagles)

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p. 22 BIRDS. Seven Orange (or Red) Birds. These resemble birds of Plate 10. Seven red birds stand in three rows, facing right to left, arranged, one, three, and three. Each has a hooked beak, broad and striped tailfeathers, and two claws or talons. They resemble the Golden Eagles of the Wild Hog-Kansas State Historical Society ledger (Plates 15, 34, 36). They also resemble the "striped eagle" in Making Medicine's 1875 "Fowls of Indian Territory" drawing (National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian, Washington D.C., Neg. No. 55,036, dated 1875). John H. Moore describes "war eagle," "striped eagle," "ordinary eagle," "yellow eagle," "snow head," "prairie" or "spotted eagle," "red eagle," "blue eagle," "gray eagle," and "white-painted eagle" in translations of Cheyenne taxonomy of "great birds" in "The Ornithology of Cheyenne Religionists" (Plains Anthropologist 1986: 183). Media: Orange crayon p. 23 BIRDS. Six Blue Birds. These resemble the birds on the preceding page and Plate 10. Six blue birds stand facing right to left, filling the page. They are arranged in three rows of two. Each has a hooked beak, broad tailfeathers, and two claws or talons. They are almost identical to the blue birds on page 16, Plate 10. Media: Blue crayon outlines, details, and fill


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Drawn in 1879 by Northern Cheyenne leader Porcipine in Dodge City Jail. Dodge City, Kansas; purchased by L.M. ...

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Plate No: 13
Page No: 22, 23
Media: crayon
Dimensions: 13 X 9 cm
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The Schøyen Collection. London and Oslo.
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Porcupine
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