Pipe Bag
Assiniboine Nakota
Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
Central Plains
Plains
early 20th century
Native-tanned deer hide, glass beads, sinew, metal beads, and thread (recycled beadwork leggings)
Overall: 23 5/8 × 7 1/16 in. (60 × 18 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26562
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Bag
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
On view
Inscriptions
Attached Tag: "#34 Quiver"; Attached Cloth Label: "White Elk"
Label
White zig-zagging motifs on a beaded blue ground reference water and lightning in the Nakota people’s homelands in the Northern Great Plains. The green strip differs in width, which suggests that this pipe bag was repurposed from a woman’s legging. The narrowest part of the green line would have been worn over the back of the ankle. Originally designed to be worn on the body, this representation of water and lightning differs from the paintings hanging nearby, which were always intended to be displayed on a wall.
From the 2023 exhibition Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
First Year Student Enrichment Program - Cultures, Identities and Belongings, Francine A'Ness, Summer 2023
Exhibition History
Liquidity: Art, Commodities, and Water, Israel Sack Gallery and the Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 29, 2023-June 16, 2024.
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.
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.69, no.95.
Provenance
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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