Treaty Signing at Medicine Creek Lodge

I find it interesting that a period in history was recorded by art in two different ways by two different people.  Taylor's version was more representational, depicted in black and white by pencil with vast detail.  Unlike Taylor's work, Wolf creates something that was more abstract in the fact that it was not as detailed and took the world and events that he saw and only included the main characteristics, essentially only throwing in what was important in his eyes.  The semiotics and iconography really go hand in hand with these two.  The language that Taylor uses is more organized and structured with all the detail versus the more primitive and colorful depiction in Wolf's version showing the differences in culture.  Wolf's work relies mostly on it's iconography showing a lot of detail in the attire that the characters wear and the different types of symbols and colors used on their tipi's, something that only someone of their culture can really understand.  Whereas Taylor portrays the Indians with some feathers and arrows, more or less creating an image with primitive savages instead of people who carry great meaning with them in what they wear.  Wolf's cultural image shows the value of their women by including them and Taylor takes an ethnocentric view by woman in formal attire and almost blended into the background, making them very difficult to pick out.  This also really shows the difference in cultures, Taylor's work illustrated the belief that men are the back bone in society and make all the decisions opposed to the Indian culture where women seem to be included equally with the men.