Honor Shirt

Niitsitapii (Blackfoot / Blackfeet)
Northern Plains
Plains

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about 1890-1910

Native-tanned antelope hide, paint, beads, cotton thread, ermine, wood cloth

Overall: 46 7/16 × 20 in. (118 × 50.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Stephanie B. Reininger

2012.29

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Clothing: Outerwear

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Inscriptions

Collector's stamp: COLLECTED BY / E. W. LENDERS / PHILADELPHIA, PA

Provenance

Collected by Emil W. Lenders (1864-1934), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ernest Wayne Brown (1878-1947), Yarmouth, Nova Scotia; to his son, Ernest Bennett Brown (1914-2004), Strafford, New Hamsphire; to his niece, Stephanie Brown Reininger, in 1989, while she was living in Tucson, Arizona; given to present collection, 2012.

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