Beaded Pouch and Mescal Buttons
Osage
Prairie
Plains
about 1899-1909
Mescal, native tanned hide, and yellow and blue glass beads
Overall: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill
46.17.10171
Geography
Place Made: Pawhuska, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Exhibition History
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.
Provenance
"Secured by Frank Corndropper (Pi-Zhi-Ton-Ga, 1848-1918), Osage Interpreter and Indian Police"; Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 1902-1903; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.
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