Explain the change in the traditional subject matter of the paintings of the Plains Indians people using the robe with Mato Tope’s exploits and Howling Wolf’s At the Sand Creek Massacre as examples.
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1. Before the nineteenth century, traditional examples of Plains Indians paintings, such as the robe with Mato Tope’s exploits, were made by men to show their deeds in battle.
2. Like Mato Tope’s robe, the buffalo hide paintings were representational and showed figures in profile view with no horizon line.
3. After the arrival of European settlers in the nineteenth century, the subject matter shifted to depictions of battles with United States military forces and artists began to use ledger books due to the decline in buffalo.
4. Howling Wolf’s At the Sand Creek Massacre portrays the 1864 event in which military troops surrounded an encampment and killed between 70 and 163 Native Americans.
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