Sioux warshirt circa 1860

[Hennessy]

This shirt took me a year to make in my spare time. It's a copy from a Smithsonian collection. The bead work is handtooled and painted. Everything else is hand made. Mostly acrylic paint. The blue spots came to me to be buffalo whilst I was painting the shirt. Not long after I got through painting them (the shirt still unfinished) an Indian walked in my shop. I asked him if he saw a scene in the blue dots. His immediate response was buffalo.

I asked him his tribe and he said Sioux. I asked him the branch and he said Ogalala.

This is an Ogalala warshirt that belonged to Chief Long Arm. circa 1860

adiios,

Pete

[JRedding]

what an outstanding piece of work, I've admired pieces like this enough to realize the time and talent it takes to craft something like this and do a good job. Sounds like it's already brought you an interesting experience while building it. This is the first piece of it's kind I've seen someone on the forum build, thanks for sharing the photo I'd like to see even more, a truly interesting project and a fine job of a difficult reproduction. Congragulations, don't let anyone talk you out of it, the shirt and the experience are irreplaceable.

[UKRay]

This shirt took me a year to make in my spare time. It's a copy from a Smithsonian collection. The bead work is handtooled and painted. Everything else is hand made. Mostly acrylic paint. The blue spots came to me to be buffalo whilst I was painting the shirt. Not long after I got through painting them (the shirt still unfinished) an Indian walked in my shop. I asked him if he saw a scene in the blue dots. His immediate response was buffalo.

I asked him his tribe and he said Sioux. I asked him the branch and he said Ogalala.

This is an Ogalala warshirt that belonged to Chief Long Arm. circa 1860

adiios,

Pete

Pete, could you please post a couple more pictures of the detail. The work looks great but I'd like to see more! Nice job, Ray

[Wyvern]

Absolutly primo work!

[MADMAX22]

Great work man, that is outstanding. I would also like to see some more pics if at all possible.

[Hennessy]

Great work man, that is outstanding. I would also like to see some more pics if at all possible.

thanks for the kind words jredding,ukray,wyvern,mad.i dont have any more pix right now, anyhow both the aesthetic and intrinsic values are well received at this distance.the shirt is a front only, mounted on a cedar wood frame and was intended to be displayed in a shadow box adios pete