Cheyenne scout from Davide Chiarabella

[joepanzer]

hello , I'm very happy to insert a work of my friend and big painter Davide Chiarabella
that will do happy all the person that love indians soldier like me
"Cheyenne scout" scratch build from Davide Chiarabella

For more about him visist his weblocation
WWW.DAVIDECHIARABELLA.COM
or write to [email protected]

Ciao from Italy
Marco Ganghini

 

[frank h]

Hi
just looked at Davides site some terrific painting

Frank

 

[Bruno]

Hi Davide,

congratulations to your Cheyenne figurine. I love the whole arrangement. A Cheyenne Wolfe (Plains Indian name for Scouts) ist waving a signal to his comrads. Typically for a wolfe (scout), he wears a wolfe skin with head. Teh anatomy, the pose the face is very beautifull, also the shield is beautiful made and painted.

The Moccasins are Southern Ceyenne, as you can see on the small bead works, the only thing I want to mention is, that he wears women moccassins with cuffs. Cheyenne men had moccasins without cuffs.

The Mustang is fantastic painted and gives a great impression.
At least one small thing for future projects: Plains Indians never useed fur pelts as horese blankest. Theys rieded the horse barback or they used trade blankets or skin. As afriend of the "Lakota horsemen ship Organisation" explained me one time, for the Plains Indian way of ridign a horse, you need a close contact with your shaks to the horse. With a fur pelt you dont have the needed contact. You would have problems to sit on the hores in full gallop. That was the reason they don't used pelts. But this is no critic, it is only an hint for future projects.

The painting of the adchievement marking on the horse is very authentic!

Real a very fine worke Davide. I would love to see photos of the reverse side of the figurine.
I hope to see more Indian figurines from you!

Best regards

Bruno

 

[Sambaman]

Davide,
fantastic piece! Very dramatic and perfectly painted! I visited your site, you do fine work!

Bruno, use the link provided in the post and you can see more views of this piece, including the other side.

Jay H.
OKC

 

[dario966]

hey
nice piece - congrats...
With all due respect, I think they did use pelt shabraque/saddle blanket because it does make sense from horseman point of view and there is ample evidence for it from 1st half of the 19th century:
as depicted by Karl Bodmer - 1830s the saddle pelt has red cloth finish
http://digitalcollections.lclark.edu/cdm4/...CISOPTR=5&REC=1
or in this drawing from the Kurz journal - if you can peruse the whole sketchbook - tons of material, very interesting and not prudish at all http://www.kramers.org/amm/kurz/plate22.jpg
Also in the famous Mr. John Ewers book - the Horse int the Blackfeet Culture - now available here!!!! http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/BAE/Bulletin159/
Please read this page carefully http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/b...00/image109.htm
question or rather a humble request - is it possible to get the full rear and straight frontal shots of this nice horseman?
dario

 

[Bruno]

Hallo Dario,

sorry my statment my statement "Plains Indians never used fur pelts as saddle blankets them" was not correct.
I had the Kurz, the Bodmer and the Ewers book and there are drafts of fur pelts as saddle blankets on Crow, Blackfeet and other triebs of this area. For the Northern Plains I agree with you, they used fur pelts.

But up to this moment I did not see any draft of a fur pelt as saddle blanket on Northern Cheyenne or Southern Cheyenne.
Perhapes you have information that the Cheyenne using fur pelt as saddle blankets? I would be very interested to see this informations, as I never found any information about this.

In any case, the figurin is breathtaking!!!

Thanky for your information

Many greatings from Germany

bruno

 

[dario966]

Herr Bruno,
Mein Gott, you are the best!
I never thought about that, i.e. variations within the tribes as far as the saddle coverings etc.
For the Cheyennes I have my Grinnell books and some other books, I shall check - but you probably have already checked them
I think it makes sense to use fur/pelt saddle blanket/shabraque - and these warrior horsemen were nothing but common sense.
thank you for this exchange - and I think this figure deserves to be talked more about as it is very well executed piece of art.
Also, this figure is really very nice and appealing - looks a little bit like a painiting by McCarthy or Terpning.
By the way, I got something to show you - I did this Cheyenne watercolor long time ago -1992 - it suppose to be a Red Shield society member
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=25817&img=Mahohewa_Cheyen.jpg
danke
dario

 

[Bruno]

Hi Dario,

the painting is great!!! Absolutly superb, I wished I could paint such a beautiful paintings.
The research you did is great, the warrior with the bodypainting, the weapons, the painting of the horse, first class research Dario!!!

The paintings shows how colourful Plains Indian warriors had been and how much this great culture can offer the figurine world, if they step away from the stereotype "Apache ore Sioux".

Dif you have more such beautiful and very interesting paintings. I would apreciate to see them if possible.

At least one request, could you send me a good quailty copy of this painting to my e-mail? I would love to print your painting and add it to my Cheyenne files.

My big compliment!

Best regards from Bavaria

Bruno