{{Short description|Eastern Shoshone artist (c. 1866–1912)}} {{Infobox person | name = Cotsiogo | image = Portrait of Codsiogo, before 1898.png | image_upright = 1 | caption = Cotsiogo, photographed prior to 1898 | other_names = Codsiogo, Katsikodi, Cadzi Cody | birth_date = {{circa|1866}} | death_date = {{Death year and age|1912|1866}} | occupation = Artist | known_for = Hide paintings | parents = Washakie }}
'''Cotsiogo''' ({{Circa|1866}}–1912), also known as '''Codsiogo''', '''Katsikodi''', or '''Cadzi Cody''', was an Eastern Shoshone artist known for his hide paintings. He lived on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
== Early life == Born in the 1860s, Cotsiogo was a son of Eastern Shoshone leader Washakie.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WIND RIVER SHOSHONE PAINTED ELK HIDE |url=https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5400592 |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Christie's}}</ref> During Cotsiogo's lifetime, the tribe was placed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in the Wyoming Territory, a reservation established by the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kilroy-Ewbank |first=Lauren |title=Eastern Shoshone: Hide Painting of the Sun Dance, attributed to Cotsiogo (Cadzi Cody) |url=https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/indigenous-americas-apah/north-america-apah/a/eastern-shoshone-hide-painting-of-the-sun-dance-attributed-to-cotsiogo-cadzi-cody |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Khan Academy}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Guenther |first=Todd |last2=Stewart |first2=James J. |last3=Copp-LaRocque |first3=Clara |last4=Brow |first4=Gale |title=Codsiogo |url=https://nebula.wsimg.com/5d145a8a2e78b023ae4ba8ebf5430c4a?AccessKeyId=8DEEBA786794D9DD4655&disposition=0&alloworigin=1 |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Nebula.wsimg.com |publisher=Central Wyoming College}}</ref> == Work == thumb|Elk hide painting by Cotsiogo.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Exhibits |url=https://www.amerind.org/exhibits/ |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Amerind Museum}}</ref>|leftCotsiogo was known for his paintings on animal hides, including elk hide. His earliest paintings had depictions of the Wolf (War) Dance with a US flag at the center of the piece. The Shoshone Wolf Dance evolved into the Grass Dance, with men dancers going from having "one or two feathers in their hair to war bonnets with long streamers and feather bustles".<ref name=":1" /> Depictions of the Wolf Dance were quickly replaced by the Sun Dance, Grass Dance, and buffalo hunts. Cotsiogo, who sold his paintings to white tourists visiting the Wind River Reservation, included scenes of traditional buffalo hunts because they were seen as more desirable by buyers.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Scenes of Plains Indian Life |url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/3384/scenes-of-plains-indian-life-cadzi-cody |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Minneapolis Institute of Art}}</ref> Thanks to the tourist economy, new trade markets, and the influx of new materials, artists like Cotsiogo were able to produce works that helped support themselves and their families.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Painted Elk Hide |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/83032 |access-date=10 December 2023 |website=Brooklyn Museum}}</ref><ref name=":0" />
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Category:1866 births Category:1912 deaths Category:Native American male artists Category:Native American painters Category:People from pre-statehood Wyoming Category:Eastern Shoshone people Category:Wind River Indian Reservation Category:20th-century Native American artists Category:19th-century Native American artists Category:Eastern Shoshone Tribe Category:Native American people from Wyoming
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