White Buffalo Horn Spoon

Oglala Lakota
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains

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mid-late 19th century

American Bison horn and leather

Overall: 5 3/16 × 4 in. (13.1 × 10.2 cm)

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

181.2.26023

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

Course History

ANTH 11/NAS 11, Ancient Native Americans, Deb Nichols, Winter 2019

Exhibition History

Native American Studies Exhibition, Bartlett Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire,January 9-September 1987.

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 by have belonged to Chief Crazy Horse (1840-1877); given to Running Elk [grandson]; 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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