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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
Calling themselves the Chatiks si chatiks or the "Men of Men", the Pawnee were a powerful Plains Indian tribe living in the valley of the Platte River in what is present day Nebraska. Their common name comes from the way they customarily wore their hair as a scalplock being stiffened with paint and fat and curved to resemble a horn or "pawnee."
While most North American Indian tribes explained their origin in terms of emergence from the earth, the Pawnee saw their origin in the heavenly bodies. Such devotion to the cosmos obviously led many Pawnee to decorate their personal belongings with celestial imagery. This is the case with the spectacular buffalo robe painted with five pointed stars that was owned by the Pawnee leader Sun Chief. His father, Petalesharro, the Head Chief of all Pawnee and Villages and leader of the Pawnee councils, was the owner of these unusual leggings, embellished with eagle feathers, painted Morning Star symbols, and adorned with bear paw motif beaded strips and beaded garters worn below the knees.
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Various Sizes - Matted Prints
Calling themselves the Chatiks si chatiks or the "Men of Men", the Pawnee were a powerful Plains Indian tribe living in the valley of the Platte River in what is present day Nebraska. Their common name comes from the way they customarily wore their hair as a scalplock being stiffened with paint and fat and curved to resemble a horn or "pawnee."
While most North American Indian tribes explained their origin in terms of emergence from the earth, the Pawnee saw their origin in the heavenly bodies. Such devotion to the cosmos obviously led many Pawnee to decorate their personal belongings with celestial imagery. This is the case with the spectacular buffalo robe painted with five pointed stars that was owned by the Pawnee leader Sun Chief. His father, Petalesharro, the Head Chief of all Pawnee and Villages and leader of the Pawnee councils, was the owner of these unusual leggings, embellished with eagle feathers, painted Morning Star symbols, and adorned with bear paw motif beaded strips and beaded garters worn below the knees.
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