Pictorial Buffalo Robe
Sioux
Plains
about 1870
Buffalo hide, paint, ink, sinew
Overall: 86 × 102 3/8 in. (218.5 × 260 cm)
Overall: 118 1/8 in. (300 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund
2009.13
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Course History
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
Art History 40.01, American Art And Identity, Mary Coffey, Fall 2023
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.
Publication History
Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, Summer 1991, p. 35.
George P. Horse Capture, Sr., Joe D. Horse Capture, Joseph M. Sanchez, et al., Native American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, ill. on p. 109 and p. 165, no. 111.
Provenance
Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico; 1991; Sotheby's American Indian Art, including Property from the Collection of Frieda and Milton Rosenthal, Sale 8544, lot 22, May 20, 2009, New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2009.
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