Honor Shirt
Niitsitapii (Blackfoot / Blackfeet)
Northern Plains
Plains
about 1890-1910
Native-tanned antelope hide, paint, beads, cotton thread, ermine, wood cloth
Overall: 46 7/16 × 20 in. (118 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Stephanie B. Reininger
2012.29
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Collector's stamp: COLLECTED BY / E. W. LENDERS / PHILADELPHIA, PA
Provenance
Collected by Emil W. Lenders (1864-1934), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ernest Wayne Brown (1878-1947), Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; to his son, Ernest Bennett Brown (1914-2004), Strafford, New Hamsphire; to his niece, Stephanie Brown Reininger, in 1989, while she was living in Tucson, Arizona; given to present collection, 2012.
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