Indigenous War Painting of the Plains: An Illustrated History Volume 283 - Hardcoverby Arni Brownstone (Author), Lindsay M. Montgomery (Foreword by), Dana Claxton (Contribution by) In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains practiced an archival art narrating war exploits in large scale paintings executed on animal hide robes, shirts, tipi covers, and tipi liners. Essentially autobiographical, the paintings were worn and lived in by the men whose war exploits they portrayed, and were