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Shirt
Native American, Lakota (Sioux)
1880s
Object Place: North or South Dakota, United States, Plains
Medium/Technique
Leather, fur, human hair, beads, and fabric of wool and cotton
Dimensions
127 x 78.74 cm (50 x 31 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Louise C. Carpenter in memory of her parents, United States Senator Marcus A. and Mrs. Ethel Warren Coolidge
Accession Number1991.962
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CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsTextiles
DescriptionYellow painted deer skin. Body of shirt retains deer leg shape at hemline front and back. Arms stitched at wrist, open from wrist to hem with thong closers. Geometric beading in long rectangles running length of arms, across shoulder front waist to back waist and square front and back neck. Ermine and human hair appendages along beadwork.
Provenance1917, sold by the Fred Harvey Indian Building, Albuquerque, NM, to Marcus Allen Coolidge (b. 1865 - d. 1947) and Ethel Warren Coolidge (b. 1870 - d. 1955), Fitchburg, MA; by inheritance to their daughter, Louise Coolidge Carpenter (b. 1901 - d. 1995), Mendenhall, PA; 1991, year-end gift of Louise Coolidge Carpenter to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 22, 1992)