Beaded Pouch and Mescal Buttons

Osage
Prairie
Plains

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about 1899-1909

Mescal, native tanned hide, and yellow and blue glass beads

Overall: 1 15/16 in. (5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Frank C. and Clara G. Churchill

46.17.10171

Geography

Place Made: Pawhuska, United States, North America

Period

19th century

Object Name

Personal Gear: Bag

Research Area

Native American

Native American: Plains

Not on view

Exhibition History

Native Ecologies: Recycle, Resist, Protect, Sustain, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 26, 2019-January 5, 2020

Survival/Art/History: American Indian Collections from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, November 18, 2000-April 7, 2002.

Provenance

"Secured by Frank Corndropper (Pi-Zhi-Ton-Ga, 1848-1918), Osage Interpreter and Indian Police"; Clara G. Corser Turner Churchill (1851-1945) and Frank Carroll Churchill (1850-1912), Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 1902-1903; bequeathed to present collection, 1946.

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