capote
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Art & Architecture Thesaurus\OBJECTS FACET\Costume\costume\costume by form\outerwear\
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1879
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.19.83
Description
Dressed in a soldier's uniform and wearing a hair pipe breast plate and distinctive kit fox skin that symbolizes his position, a leader of the Kit Fox warrior society, struggles for a knife in hand-to-hand combat with a Nez Perce. The Nez Perce wears a short capote and blue pants with garters. This drawing likely shows the same event illustrated by an unknown artist in the Little Wolf Band Ledger (Powell, 1975, pp. 46-47). From the article: Preserving History in the Southern...
Dates:
1879
Fort Reno Ledger Drawing, 1887
Item — Folder Unknown: [Barcode: 251.Unknown]
Identifier: 4526.11.125
Description
A warrior on horseback wearing an eagle feather bonnet with trailer uses his lance to count coup on a Crow. The Crow carries a rifle and mirror board and wears wool leggings and a capote indicating that the fight took place in cold weather. From the article: Preserving History in the Southern Plains: Cheyenne and Arapaho Ledger Drawings from Fort Reno, Plains Indian Art, Created in Community. Emma I. Hansen, Curator Emerita and Senior Scholar for the Buffalo Bill...
Dates:
1887