Can anyone help me identify or find someone with expertise to identify a 
Native American painted skin in our collection.  It is on antelope skin, 
has a geometric image in the center and a border that surrounds the 
image at the outer edges of the skin.  The paint is black, red, and 
white.  I can send an image off list to anyone who wants to see it.  It 
came to us as part of a Moravian historical collection but there is no 
provenience.  However, it may have a connection to New Spring Place, a 
Moravian mission, in Oklahoma-or not.  It may date to the mid to late 
19th century. We have another skin in poorer condition and a large bob 
cat hide both mounted in the same crude way as this one (nailed on to a 
construction of wood boards).  We suspect that all three originated in 
the same place.  But, the mounts may have been the work of someone 
local. Our biologist said the bob cat is unusually large and is probably 
southern Plains.  It has been suggested that the painted skin is a 
bundle wrapper.  If anyone can help please contact me off line for a photo.

Thanks so much.
Beverlye Hancock, Curator
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