White Buffalo Horn Ladle
Oglala Lakota
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains
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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