Red Cloud's painted tipi. From: Whispering Wind | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Goble, Paul | COPYRIGHT 2004 Whispering Wind. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

There are three references for the design of Red Cloud's painted tipi. Figure 1 is the oldest, painted on a pipe bag (photo 1) which Red Cloud or his son Jack Red Cloud presented, about 1903, to his friend James H. Cook, a rancher living in the northwest corner of Nebraska.

The painting on the pipe bag is now indistinct with age, but is of a tipi seen from the back, with Red Cloud's head and shoulders glyph above (not shown here). Superimposed across the tipi there appea...