Girl's Dress
Tsistsistas / Suhtai (Cheyenne)
Northern Plains
Plains
about 1915-1920
Native-tanned elk hide, glass beads, bone, string, sinew, thread, fake elk teeth
Overall: 37 3/16 × 37 3/8 in. (94.5 × 95 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Newton Buckner
46.10.10795
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Exhibition History
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.
To Image and to See: Crow Indian Photographs by Edward S. Curtis and Richard Throssel, 1905-1910, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 1-September 5, 1993.
Provenance
Collected by Mortimer Norton Buckner (1873-1942), Greenwich, Connecticut, before 1926; bequeathed to his son, Newton Buckner (1913-2005), Greenwich, Connecticut, about 1942; [delivered tro Dartmouth College by Newton Buckner's father-in-law, John Carleton Sterling (1888-1964), Class of 1911]; given to present colllection, 1946.
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