ARNOLD FRIBERG, R.S.A.
The Native American Collection
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	Indian men wanted their women to present a fine appearance on horseback. As a result, women's horsegear was much more elaborate and decorated than the men's. Here Friberg has pictured a splendid procession of a tribe on the move, with richly beaded saddles, chest bands, and cruppers on horses drawing burdens by means of lodge poles laced into a "travois," ridden by squaws carrying papooses on their backs in highly decorated cradleboards
	1990 Release. Early in the 1940's Friberg saw "the most splendid Indian birchbark canoe" in a Chicago museum. He made a sketch and used it as a basis for several paintings, but finally wanted to capture it more richly as the subject of a large new painting. When he returned to the museum, they had long since discontinued the exhibit and the canoe was found dirty and falling apart in storage. It lives on it its full glory in this painting, afloat a calm lake the Indians considered sacred. "Manitou" is the Indian name for God.
	1991 Release. This painting does not illustrate a particular event, but rather a parley as it might have occurred countless times. It is a meeting of foes in battle, but who respect each other as honorable fighting men. Notable are the strong splendid horses.

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