Rawhide Container (Parfleche)
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Plains
about 1900
Cow rawhide, Native-tanned leather, paint
Overall: 8 1/4 × 8 1/4 × 16 5/16 in. (21 × 21 × 41.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Guido R. Rahr, Sr., Class of 1951P
985.47.26523
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Personal Gear: Box
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Inscriptions
Attached Tag: "79. Rawhide Trunk, Prob. Sioux"
Course History
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2013
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 38, HIST 38, American Odysseys: Lewis and Clark, American Indians, and the New Nation, Colin Calloway, Winter 2014
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38/HIST 38.02, Lewis and Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway 1, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAS 38.01, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2021
NAIS 38.01/HIST 38.02, Lewis & Clark in Indian Country, Colin Calloway, Summer 2022
History 63.02, Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science, Whitney Barlow Robles, Spring 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.
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 2-June 19, 1987.
Publication History
Barbara A. Hail and Gregory C. Schwarz, Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1987, p.65, no. 60.
Catalogue Raisonne
Collected by Guido Reinhardt Rahr, Sr. (1902-1985), Manitowoc, Wisconsin; given to present collection, 1985.
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