Native America

LEFT Unangax̂ (Aleut), Umiak Model, mid-19th century, wood, hide, cloth, lead hands, pitch, sinew, bird skin, ochre, and thread. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Captain Worthen Hall and Polly D. Lovewell Hall; 13.1.590.

LEFT Tlingit, Rattle in the Shape of a Tináa (Copper Shield), with a Bird Figure, collected about 1820-1860, wood, spruce root, pigment. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt Kimberly; 22.3.1893.

LEFT Nampeyo, American, 1858/1859-1942, Seed Jar, 1900-1910, hano Polychrome with white slip. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Emily W. and George H. Browne; 42.12.8107.

LEFT Gwich'in, Moccasins (Dance Boots) (detail), collected 1903-1904, Native tanned and smoked hide, glass beads, metal beads, thread. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Lt. Col. Alfred T. Clifton, Class of 1927P; 42.15.7813.

LEFT Seminole, Man's Focsikchobee (Big Shirt), about 1900, cotton cloth, dye, buttons, thread. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill; 46.17.9956.

LEFT Elizabeth Conrad Hickox, American / Karuk / Wiyot, 1875-1947, Basket (detail), about 1925, wild grape root (Vitis californica Bethn.), myrtle sticks, hazel (Corylus sp.), maidenhair fern (Adiantum sp.), yellow-dyed porcupine quills, staghorn lichen (Letharia vulpina). Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Mrs. James Foster Scott, in memory of her late husband, Victor J. Evans; 157.9.13894.

LEFT Unknown people (Woodlands), Container Depicting the Cosmological Universe and on the Underside Two Thunderbirds, about 1800, birch bark, wood, spruce root, twine (added later). Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase; 163.66.15194.

LEFT Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, American / French Cree / Shoshone / Salish, born 1940, The Rancher (detail), 2002, acrylic on canvas. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the William S. Rubin Fund; 2005.13.

LEFT Dwayne Wilcox, American / Oglala Lakota, born 1957, Night Shade, Milky Way (detail), 2011, collage, ink and colored pencil on vintage ledger paper mache. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund; 2011.40.

LEFT Unknown Artist (Julian Scott Artist A), Ka'igwu, active late 19th century, Untitled (Osage War Dance) (detail), page number 11, from the "Julian Scott Ledger", 1880, graphite, colored pencil, watercolor, crayon, and ink on laid ledger paper. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Mark Lansburgh Ledger Drawing Collection; Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund; D.2003.18.3.