LATE 19TH C. LAKOTA SIOUX FRAME DRUM PAINTED WITH A
Vintage painted drum, created by a member of the Sioux tribe (Plains Indian). The drum was constructed of rawhide, stretched over a bent oak needlepoint hoop and is hand-painted with pictographic elements of two warriors on foot firing rifles, a man on a horse who is also firing a rifle back, several glyphs at edges, rendered in black cartooning, with red, green and brown decoration, 11 3/4" diam. Good condition.
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Vintage painted drum, created by a member of the Sioux tribe (Plains Indian). The drum was constructed of rawhide, stretched over a bent oak needlepoint hoop and is hand-painted with pictographic elements of two warriors on foot firing rifles, a man on a horse who is also firing a rifle back, several glyphs at edges, rendered in black cartooning, with red, green and brown decoration, 11 3/4" diam. Good condition.