This exhibition explores the rich history and art of Blackfeet painted lodges, or tipis. Blackfeet artists Victor Pepion and Cecile Last Star (Black Boy) created paintings depicting dozens of traditional painted tipis during the 1930’s -1940’s. Cecile Black Boy collected and transcribed the traditional stories of many Blackfeet painted tipis as part the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project. Both the original paintings and the manuscripts are now held in the collection of the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, MT.
