Installation of Blackfeet tipi designer Lyle J. Heavy Runner's Bleeding Buffalo Skull Tipi at the Brooklyn Museum on Jan. 31, 2011, for “Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains”
In 1889, the same year that Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night, the Húnkpapa Lakoda warrior Rain-in-the-Face illustrated a chronicle of his exploits -- horse-stealing, making war and even the heroic rescue of a chief’s daughter during a battle with U.S. soldiers -- on the liner of his tipi.
