Cap

Princess Mary (Ko-a-lak-a), Modoc, about 1844 - 1906
Modoc
California culture

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about 1900

Tule (warp), bear grass (weft), red and green dyes, cotton band, glass beads twining technique

Overall: 3 1/8 × 8 1/4 × 8 1/4 in. (8 × 21 × 21 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.9339

Geography

Place Made: Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory, United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Headwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: California Culture

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-July 15, 2019.

Northern Native American Basketry, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 4, 1990-October 20, 1991.

Publication History

Tamara Northern and Davina Begaye, Guide to the Exhibition of Northern Native American Basketry, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1990.

Provenance

Made by "Princess Mary" (about 1844-1906), Quapaw Agency, Indian Territory ( Oklahoma); collected by Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Oklahoma, 1900; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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