Container Depicting the Cosmological Universe and on the Underside Two Thunderbirds
Unknown people (Woodlands)
Great Lakes Woodlands
Woodlands
about 1800
Birch bark, wood, spruce root, twine (added later)
Overall: 8 11/16 × 8 1/4 × 6 1/8 in. (22 × 21 × 15.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
163.66.15194
Geography
Place Made: Wisconsin area, United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Woodlands
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 75, Ecology, Culture, and the Environment, Deborah Nichols, Fall 2012
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
REL 1, Patterns of Religious Experience, Elizabeth Perez, Fall 2013
WRIT 7 , Religion and Literature: Re-visioning the Natural, Nancy Crumbine, Spring 2015
ANTH 11/NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deb Nichols, Winter 2019
Exhibition History
Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 8, 2011-March 12, 2012.
The Arts of Native America, The Eastern Woodland: Algonkian and Iroquois, Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Anthropology and History Collections, East Gallery, Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 6-November 11, 1979.
The Tradition Continues: Native American Art from New England Collections, Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, Massachusetts, March 10-May 29, 1994.
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Rush Family Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–July 22, 2022.
Publication History
Jane C. Beck, Always in Season: Folk Art and Traditional Culture in Vermont, Montpelier, Vermont: Vermont Council on the Arts, 1982, 144 pp., ill. p. 63.
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 112,116,118 and p. 174, no. 148.
Provenance
Purchased in the Midwest (said to have come from Vermont) by Edward C. Fales (1900-1985), book dealer, Salisbury, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, November 26, 1963.
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