{"product_id":"230118-01-6-northern-plains-pictorial-muslin-set-of-six","title":"Northern Plains PICTORIAL MUSLIN Set of Six","description":"\u003cp\u003ePICTORIAL MUSLIN Set of Six \u003cbr\u003eIncluding the 1\" frame all around they measure:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e31.5\" x 56.5\"\u003cbr\u003e12.5\" x 34.5\"\u003cbr\u003e14\" x 28\"\u003cbr\u003e14\" x 34.5\"\u003cbr\u003e10\" x 32\"\u003cbr\u003e8\" x 8.5\"\u003cbr\u003eBijan Pakzad, generally known monotonously as Bijan (4 April 1940 – 16 April 2011), was an Iranian designer of menswear and fragrance creating multi-billion dollar businesses. \u003cbr\u003eFrom the estate of famous Beverly Hills menswear designer of the 1990, Bijan who was profiled in Woman's Journal, February Issue 1994 and photographed with the art hanging in the background of the portrait of Bijan and family. See attached. I obtained these from the estate. Purchased by Bijan in the 1970s-1980s from a gallery in Santa Fe.\u003cbr\u003eThis exceptional painted muslin provides a rare graphic depiction of Native American Painting on panels of muslin or canvas cloth developed in the 1880s, having evolved from pictographically painted tipi liners. A tipi liner was an ingenious architecture element that was fixed to the lower section of the interior of a tipi and acted as a device to move smoke along the inside wall to escape through the hole at the top. During the reservation period, many Native American families were moved from their traditional tipis into log cabins. During this period tipi liners were sometimes made out of trade cloth as hides were scarce. Also, in the log cabins, the mud and moss chinking between the logs frequently dried out, creating drafts. To combat this problem, the tipi liner was employed and panels of cloth were often fixed around the interior. Male warrior artists on the Great Plains traditionally painted personal histories and “war records” on buffalo hides and war shirts. With the decimation of the buffalo herds, the pressure of Euro-American military expansion and colonial settlement in the mid to late 19th century, painting on hide declined. This change was accompanied by the increasing availability of new materials through trade on the Plains. Paper obtained from ledger books and commercially traded muslin cloth gradually replaced hide as mediums of narrative expression. Similar in purpose and appearance to earlier hide linings used in tipis, the cloth cabin liners were painted with depictions of the owner's battle exploits. In the early-1890s ethnologists working on reservations frequently acquired these cabin liners for museums. Recognizing the economic potential of their work, artists soon took up commercial production of these remarkable historical records.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antique American Indian Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45877830975653,"sku":"230118-01-6","price":55000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/6071\/5685\/files\/s725348264778838518_p12375_i1_w2111.jpg?v=1757347308","url":"https:\/\/antiqueamericanindianart.com\/products\/230118-01-6-northern-plains-pictorial-muslin-set-of-six","provider":"Antique American Indian Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}