Trickster Art Analysis

The second piece of art that I choose, was when I first walked in to the museum and enter the main gallery / central gallery on the first floor of the Trickster Art Gallery it was display like painting. But, when in fact it was not a panting, but a Buffalo hide stretched out on a wooden frame, as it was traditionally for the hide to be stretched out, and hung on a wooden frame to be displayed in the tribe of the plain Indians. Also, as the buffalo was very important to plain Indians and was key to their survival, main food source, and main use of creating tools. The plain Indians did not waste any part of the buffalo, the plain Indians used every part of the buffalo, for many different kinds of uses. The main use of the Buffalo was to provide …show more content…
Mainly I chose the Buffalo Hide art piece, because this piece represents the Native American very well, as the Native Americans and Buffalo go hand in hand whenever one is mentioned, either it’s the Buffalo or the Native Americans. When I say that the artist for this piece of art is the Plain Indians, is because that all those Native Americans tribes on the Great Plains used the buffalo. Also, there are so many Native American tribes that fall under the Plain Indians, and would be useless to keep repeating, and name all the tribes, that are the artist for art piece called Buffalo Hide. But I will name them all the Native American Tribes, and will create a list for all the Native American tribes, that fall under Plain Indians. The Native American Tribes that are part of the first group of Native Americans that fall under the general name of Plains Indians are: Blackfoot, Arapaho, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Lakota, Lipan, Plains Apache (or Kiowa Apache), Plains Cree, Plains Ojibwe, Sarsi, Nakoda (Stoney), and