White Buffalo Horn Ladle

Oglala Lakota
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains

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late 19th century

American bison horn and leather

Overall: 17 5/16 × 3 11/16 in. (44 × 9.4 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III

181.2.26022

Geography

Place Made: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Food Service

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Exhibition History

Unbroken: Native American Ceramics, Sculpture, and Design, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 22, 2022-March 12, 2023.

Provenance

Purported to have belonged to Crazy Horse (1840-1877); collected by Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.

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