Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8308017

Category: Dress

Region: Plains

Tribe: Sioux - Blackfoot?

Period: 1825-1850

Materials: Native tanned deerskin; red, white, and blue glass pony beads; red wool trade cloth; sinew sewn.

Description: Dress is decorated across the yoke with bands of pony beads. Bottom of dress is decorated with beads, red cloth, and hide fringe.

Dimensions: Length 55 inches 139.7 cm

Provenance:

Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

Exhibitions:

Akicita, The Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, May 17 1983 - July 10, 1983
Splendid Heritage, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, May 27, 1995 - September 27, 1995,
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, October 23, 1998 - October 3, 1999
Splendid Heritage, The Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, February 10, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wy, May 1, 2010 - October 31, 2010
Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, Mo, Febuary 12, 2010 - April 24, 2010

References:

Warnock, John and Marva Warnock, eds, Splendid Heritage: Perspectives on American Indian Art, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 2009, pp 171

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