Biographic Art (Other Keyword)

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Cheval Bonnet: A Crow Calling Card in Blackfeet Country (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Keyser.

Cheval Bonnet is a small petroglyph site on Cut Bank Creek, just east of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation that shows a Crow Indian coup counting scene and three other horses, two of which can be identified as the products of Crow artists by their form and the stylized war bonnet worn by each animal. Located in a hidden canyon adjacent to a major stream crossing, the site represents a "calling card" similar to other biographic images drawn both as petroglyphs and arborglyphs during the late...


"My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9 (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Keyser.

Until quite recently the Bighorn Basin has not been known for its Biographic rock art imagery. In fact, in their excellent overview of the region, Francis and Loendorf (2002:179-183) note only two sites in the Bighorn Basin proper—Military Creek and Mahogany Buttes—that contain horses and riders, and both of those are in the Bighorn Mountain foothills on the basin’s extreme eastern edge.1 They also note (Francis and Loendorf 2002:181) that “illustrations of Historic period weaponry are less...


"My Name Was Made High:" A Crow War Record at 48HO9 (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James D. Keyser.

Until quite recently the Bighorn Basin has not been known for its Biographic rock art imagery. In fact, in their excellent overview of the region, Francis and Loendorf (2002:179-183) note only two sites in the Bighorn Basin proper—Military Creek and Mahogany Buttes—that contain horses and riders, and both of those are in the Bighorn Mountain foothills on the basin’s extreme eastern edge.1 They also note (Francis and Loendorf 2002:181) that “illustrations of Historic period weaponry are less...


War Shirt from the Schoch Collection: Documentating Individual Artistic Expression (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James D. Keyser. Timothy J. Brady.

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