"Cowboys and Indians"

Chapter 2 ?'s from text. Comparison and response to John taylor(figure. 42) and Howling Wolf(figure. 43) drawings of the peace treaty at medicine creek.

1) Definitely figure. 42(Taylor) It looks more like a picture than it does an actual drawing.

2) I would think figure 43 is by far more abstract. The picture seems somewhat confusing.

3) Their forms are different in that fig. 43 is used with color and way more abstract. Fig.42 is black and white, but appears way more sophisticated.

4)  Their landscapes differ in a way that Howling Wolf is using tipis and Medicine Creek running through with indians and tipis sitting along the side of the creek.

5) I don't feel it creates a great cultural difference because they are telling the same story. They are essentially drawing the same picture. It's merely just a different way of interpretation or imagination of what took place.

6) It does in the fact that the signing and discussion is going on right there, it's kind of the heart of the picture.

7) The natives in the Taylor's work are portrayed in a sort of wild sense. The way anybody would imagine an indian. They are portrayed in a somewhat stereotypical way.
      It is ethnocentric in the sense that the indians are "Indians" and not the civilized people the Americans are in the art work.

8) The women are important as far as reproduction and the upbringing of the children. They cook and keep the tipi tidy. They are respected in the way that they take care of the little things so the men don't have to and so the men can also go hunting for their family and the rest of the tribe.