Lakota Girl
Arthur Amiotte (Wanblí Ta Hócoka Washté), Oglala Lakota / American, born 1942
Oglala Lakota
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Central Plains
Plains
1986
Photomechanical reproduction on paper
Overall: 23 1/8 × 17 9/16 in. (58.7 × 44.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
2005.39.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right: Amiotte A/P; Signed, in print, lower right: Amiotte 86 c[circled]
Label
The two Native American artists featured here honor women as connectors between past and present and as bearers of community. In his print depicting his grandmother pregnant with his father, Cannon shows her walking along the Washita River in Oklahoma, the site of the 1868 massacre led by General Custer in which many women and children of the Cheyenne camp were killed. Nevertheless, she walks calmly and confidently, embodying the resilience of life. Similarly, Amiotte portrays a Lakota woman before a decorated animal skin and beside a cradleboard holding an infant. The tip of her nose and the edge of the cradleboard meet at the geometric tribal symbol, evoking the enduring connection of the tribe across generations.
From the 2026 exhibition Nurturing Nationhood: Artistic Constructions of America, 1790-1940, curated by Haely Chang (Jane and Raphael Bernstein Associate Curator of East Asian Art), Evonne Fuselier (Hood Museum Board of Advisors Mutual Learning Fellow), Michael Hartman (former Jonathan Little Cohen Curator of American Art), Elizabeth Rice Mattison (Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Academic Programming and Curator of European Art), and Ashley B. Offill (Curator of Collection
Exhibition History
Nurturing Nationhood: Artistic Constructions of America, 1790-1940, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire; February 7-August 29, 2026.
Publication History
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p.147, Fig.1.
Provenance
The artist, Custer, South Dakota; given to present collection, 2005.
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