Doll's Dress
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains
about 1890
Wool cloth, ribbon, dentalium shell, metal sequins, cotton cloth, thread
Overall: 12 3/4 × 15 3/16 in. (32.4 × 38.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.26089
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Recreational Artifacts: Toy, Doll
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Course History
ANTH 05, Introduction to Archaeology, Nathaniel Kitchel, Summer 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.
Provenance
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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