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Apache
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Date1910-1915
MediumDeer hide, pigments
DimensionsSight: 59 × 49 × 2 1/4 in. (149.9 × 124.5 × 5.7 cm)
Object numberN0005.2009(04)
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Mrs. Mica Ertegun
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextThis hide portrays a young woman’s puberty ceremony, a ritual performance highly expressive of Chiricahua cultural identity. Naiche produced ten known hide paintings with this subject matter while held as a prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma from 1886 to 1913. These hide paintings were not made for ceremonial use but as gifts or for sale to missionaries, ethnographers, and collectors. At Fort Sill, Naiche joined the Reformed Church in America and often signed his art with the name Christian Naiche.On View
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