Medicine Man, Pete Price Preparing Sinew for Sewing Leather and Buckskin from Freshly Butchered Buffalo

Helen M. Post (1907-1979)

Date

1938
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 13 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.
Mount: 13 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l. signed in ink: Helen M. Post
Verso:
u.l. [stamp]: HELEN M. POST \ MODELY \ KENT, CT. 06757 \ 203-927-3624 \ HELEN M. POST \ LEXINGTON AVE. \ NEW YORK CITY
u.l. [stamp]: PRIVATE COPY \ Not to be used for publication \ or advertising purposes without \ written permission from \ HELEN M. POST \ MODELY \ KENT, CT. 06757 \ 203-927-3624
u.l. in graphite: Navaho (fair) \ Medicine man \ making sinew from \ buffalo butchered for the \ fair.
c. to c.r. in graphite: [crossed out] Nora Spanish \ Sinew for thread and extra strong ties \ sewing rawhide soles to soft - tanned tops \ done with an awl and sinew
Collection Name

Helen M. Post Collection
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Gift of Peter Modley
Accession Number

P1985.50.61
Copyright

© Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Location: Off view

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