Man's Shirt
Anishinaabe (Ojibwe / Chippewa)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
before 1875
Red wool trade cloth, glass beads, metal beads, ribbon, and thread
Overall: 36 15/16 in. (93.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Eileen K. Barfuss, Class of 1984
986.21.26711
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Inscriptions
Old label with donor's records: "This shirt was presented to Capt. Charles Atwood, grandfather of Mrs. G.B. Vroom, by Sitting Bull. Sitting Bull was the most famous Medicine Man of the SIOUX NATION"
Provenance
Purported to have belonged to Sitting Bull; collected by Captain Charles Attwood Sr. until 1875; Eileen K. Barfuss (Class of 1984); given to present collection, 1986.
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