Boy's Shirt (Serape style)

possibly Niitsitapli (Blackfoot / Blackfeet)
Plains

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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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