Comments on: Tipi Exhibition Planning Meeting

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Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:37:45 +0000

[…] people, my favorite exhibition is the one I’m working on now . . . and right now that’s Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains. Some exhibitions are easy, and others are more complicated. Where you end up at the end of the […]

By: Linda Holley

Linda Holley — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 16:19:06 +0000

I agree with Curt..this is what we call a Cabin liner and not a tipi liner. It is easy to get the two confused.

By: gun richarda

gun richarda — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:44:52 +0000

I’m a big tipi fan myself, and would love to learn this art. Great article!

By: Curt-Dietrich ASTEN

Curt-Dietrich ASTEN — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:27:10 +0000

Ladies & Gentlemen,

from this photo I feel quite sure that this is NOT a tipi lining but a war record in form of a (leather?, canvas?) “wall-paper” for the living room of Rain-in-the-Face when he lived henceforth in a cabin on the reservation.

If it is a tipi lining there would be the characteristic slightly curved form (if it is of leather) but similar so (if it is of canvas), AND there would be the holes or fastening strips on the upper “seam” together with their typical deformations “outward” caused by hanging as a lining from the cord around the interior tipi.

But this object is straight as a wall-paper. Even a long-time “rolled up” storage wouldn’t have made it into a “wall-paper-form” if it had been a real “lining”.

Thank you for your precious time

Curt-Dietrich (Ted) Asten

(a long-time student of N.A. Indian Ethnography from Germany)