Boy's Shirt (Serape style)
possibly Niitsitapli (Blackfoot / Blackfeet)
Plains
about 1900
Hide, cloth, glass beads, metal beads, brass snaps, brass cones, leather thong, thread
Overall: 19 11/16 × 39 in. (50 × 99 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Eleanor Clark French, Class of 1930W
989.41.27057
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Clothing: Outerwear
Research Area
Native American
Native American: Plains
Not on view
Provenance
Collected by Elizabeth Conway Clark, Fort Riley, Kansas, before 1907; to her daughter Mrs. John [Eleanor Clark] French; given to present collection, 1989.
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