Hide painting

E264573

Indigenous art form traditional art

Hide painting is a traditional Indigenous art form in which animal hides are decorated with symbolic, narrative, or ceremonial imagery, historically practiced by Plains peoples such as the Blackfoot.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Hide painting canonical	1

Statements (51)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Indigenous art form ⓘ traditional art ⓘ
depicts	battles ⓘ ceremonies ⓘ horse raids ⓘ hunting scenes ⓘ tribal histories ⓘ visionary experiences ⓘ
hasArtisticMedium	dyes ⓘ paint ⓘ pigments ⓘ
hasCulturalOrigin	Blackfoot ⓘ surface form: Blackfoot people Comanche ⓘ surface form: Comanche people Crow people ⓘ Kiowa people ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota people Plains Indians ⓘ surface form: Plains Indigenous peoples
hasFunction	ceremonial art ⓘ narrative art ⓘ record keeping ⓘ status symbol ⓘ trade good ⓘ
hasRegion	Great Plains ⓘ surface form: North American Great Plains
hasReligiousRole	embodies spiritual power ⓘ used in ceremonies ⓘ
hasStyleCharacteristic	flat areas of color ⓘ outline drawing ⓘ pictographic figures ⓘ symbolic motifs ⓘ
hasTechnique	applying mineral pigments ⓘ applying vegetal pigments ⓘ scraping hides ⓘ stretching hides ⓘ tanning hides ⓘ
hasTemporalContext	19th century ⓘ contemporary period ⓘ pre-contact period ⓘ
isAppliedTo	cradleboards ⓘ drums ⓘ parfleches ⓘ robes ⓘ shields ⓘ tipi covers ⓘ
isCreatedBy	Plains men ⓘ Plains women ⓘ
isRelatedTo	ledger art ⓘ parfleche painting ⓘ
usesMaterial	animal hide ⓘ buffalo hide ⓘ deer hide ⓘ elk hide ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Hide painting
Description of subject: Hide painting is a traditional Indigenous art form in which animal hides are decorated with symbolic, narrative, or ceremonial imagery, historically practiced by Plains peoples such as the Blackfoot.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Blackfoot → hasNotableArtForms → Hide painting ⓘ