Rawhide Container (Parfleche)
Unidentified possibly Iowa maker
Eastern Plains
Prairie
Plains
late 19th-early 20th century
Cow rawhide, native-tanned leather, and pigment
Overall: 6 11/16 × 14 × 6 5/16 in. (17 × 35.5 × 16 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26524
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Attached Tag: "33. Rawhide trunk. Probably Sioux" Marks: (in graphite, on base) "(M) 74"
Exhibition History
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.
Peoples and Cultures of the Plains, Northwest Coast, and Arctic Region, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Native American Studies 21 / Anthropology 40, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 30-December 20, 1992.
Publication History
Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.65, no.61, ill., p. 53.
Provenance
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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