Chilkat Robe (naaxein)
Chilkat Tlingit
Tlingit
Northwest Coast
about 1850-1880
Mountain Goat wool, cedar bark, and native dyes
Overall: 34 1/4 × 68 7/8 in. (87 × 175 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Robert L. Ripley, Class of 1939H
40.15.12586
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Ceremonial
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Northwest Coast
Not on view
Course History
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Spring 2012
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2013
ANTH 3, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Sienna Craig, Summer 2013
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 10, ANTH 4, Peoples and Cultures of Native North America, Sergei Kan, Winter 2015
NAS 30.18, Indians Who Rock the World: Native American Contemporary Music, Davina Two Bears, Spring 2019
Exhibition History
Affinities and Influences: Native American Art and American Modernism, Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, June 7-August 19, 1996.
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
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.
Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-July15, 2019.
Peoples and Cultures of the Northwest Coast and Arctic Regions, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-October 14, 1990.
Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.
The Art of the Northwest Coast, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Anthropology 25/Native American Studies 49, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 25-May 18, 2003.
The Commanding Presence of Imagery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1989.
Publication History
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. 88 and p. 144, no. 33.
Provenance
Possibly collected from J. E. Standley (1854-1940), Ye Olde Curoisty Shop, Seattle, Washington; to Robert L. (born LeRoy Robert) Ripley (1890-1949), Mamaroneck, New York, early 20th century (The Ripley's Believe It or Not Collection); given to present collection, 1940.
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