Waníyetu Wowápi Tȟá Matȟó Wakȟáŋ (The Winter Count of Medicine Bear), recording the years 1823-1917
Unrecorded Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna (Yanktonai) Dakota keeper
Matȟó Wakȟáŋ (Medicine Bear), Yanktonai, about 1842/47 - 1916
Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
Sioux
Central Plains
Plains
about 1917
Colored pencil and crayon on muslin
Overall: 30 1/8 × 43 1/2 in. (76.5 × 110.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund, the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund, the William B. and Evelyn F. Jaffe (58, 60, & 63) Fund, the William B. and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Fund
2009.65
Geography
Place Made: Fort Peck, United States, North America
Place Made: Standing Rock, United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Written Communication
Research Area
Native American
Drawing
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 75, Ecology, Culture, and the Environment, Deborah Nichols, Fall 2012
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 30.2, ARTH 16, Plains Ledger Drawings and Their Complexities, Joyce Szabo, Summer 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 15, HIST 15, American Indians and American Expansion: 1800 to 1924, Colin Calloway, Spring 2014
HIST 2, #EverythingHasAHistory, Matthew Delmont and Max Fraser, Fall 2019
NAS 30.19, Indigistory, Gordon Henry, Fall 2019
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway 1, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 15.01/HIST 15.01, American Indian and Expansion: 1800-1924, Colin Calloway, Spring 2022
NAIS 38.01/HIST 38.02, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
A Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, The Medicine Bear Winter Count, Singer Horse Capture, Class of 2017, Institute and Library Services Special Project Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.shorsecapture.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
Publication History
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 106 and p. 166, no. 117.
Provenance
Collected by Eugene David Mossman (1871-1958), agent for the United States Indian Service; Theodore Trotta, Jr., Shrub Oak, New York; Richard Pohrt, Jr., Ann Arbor, Michigan; sold to present collection, 2009.
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