Detail View: C. Szwedzicki: The North American Indian Works: Taos Buffalo Dancers

Work Record ID: 
283
Reproduction Record ID: 
283
Work Class: 
depictions
Work Type: 
print
Title: 
Les peintres indiens d'Amérique
Title Type: 
collective title
Title: 
American Indian painters
Title Type: 
alternate
Title: 
Taos Buffalo Dancers
Title Type: 
constructed title
Measurements: 
6.50 x 13.60 in (16.51 x 34.54 cm) on sheet 12.50 x 17.60 in (31.75 x 44.70 cm)
Measurement Type: 
dimensions
Material: 
paper (fiber product)
Material Type: 
support
Inscription: 
Below Image Right: Chiu-tah - '39 --
Inscription: 
Above Image Right: PLANCHE 47 [Plate Number]
Creator: 
Mirabel, Vicente, 1918-1944
Creator Dates: 
1918-1944
Creator Nationality: 
Taos
Creator Name Variant: 
Dancing Boy (Chiu Tah)
Creator Type: 
personal name
Creator Role: 
painter
Date: 
1950
Location: 
Taos Pueblo (N.M.)
Repository: 
Archives and Rare Books Library, University Libraries, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio
Repository Type: 
current repository
ID Number: 
ARB RB Oversize E98.A7 J18 1950 Vol. 2
ID Number Type: 
call number
ID Number: 
47
ID Number Type: 
plate number
Style Period: 
Indian art--North America
Style Period: 
Pueblo (Native American style)
Culture: 
Native American
Culture: 
Taos
Subject: 
Face painting
Subject: 
Feathers
Subject: 
Hairdressing
Subject: 
Leggings
Subject: 
Moccasins
Subject: 
Anklets (Ornaments)
Subject: 
Armbands
Subject: 
Beadwork
Subject: 
Body painting
Subject: 
Dancers
Subject: 
Horned headdresses
Subject: 
Hair ornaments
Subject: 
Blankets
Subject: 
Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.)
Subject: 
Quivers
Subject: 
Kilts
Subject: 
Arrows
Subject: 
Animal headdresses--Bison, American
Subject: 
Robes
Subject: 
Buffalo dance (Taos)
Subject: 
Taos dance
Related Work: 
Jacobson, Oscar Brousse, 1882-1966. Les peintres indiens d'Amérique / [par] O. B. Jacobson [et] Jeanne d'Ucel. Nice (France): C. Szwedzicki, 1950.
Description: 
From: American Indian Painters, Vol. 2, pp. 6-7: Vincente Mirabal was a promising young artist whose career was blasted by the war. He was born in Taos in 1918. After studying at the Indian School in Santa Fe, he became a teacher there and remained until he went into service. He had won a poster contest in San Francisco, and a painting of his was reproduced in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston, but he had not had time to produce very much. A member of the Third Army, he went overseas in 1944. He took part in the Battle of the Bulge and was killed in action in April, 1945 in Germany. Mourning him are his young Navajo wife, three sons, and a host of friends. In dress and action the "Taos Buffalo Dancers" simulate a herd of buffaloes, wearing as headdress a buffalo mask and horse, with hoofs on their feet. It is a pantomime. The Buffalo Dance belonged properly to the Plains Indians. The Pueblos of Taos, near the Plains, who sometimes hunted buffalo, were the first to adopt this dance. The other Pueblos have adopted it since; they all dance it and paint it. The color of this painting is a primitive and earthy as the soil itself. (Collection, University of Oklahoma)
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