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Plains Warrior Figure
Plains Warrior Figure
Artist (b. 1950, Assiniboine/Sioux)

Plains Warrior Figure

Datec. 1996
DimensionsOverall: 18 3/4 × 9 × 2 3/4 in. (47.6 × 22.9 × 7 cm)
Object numberT0640
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextJoyce Growing Thunder Frogarty designed this doll as a reflection on the importance of traditional gender roles in Plains Indian culture. This male doll wears a shirt, leggings and moccasins made of suede leather and decorated with porcupine quillwork. In his right hand he holds a beaded pipe bag and in his left hand a tomahawk.
ProvenancePurchased from the artist
BibliographyIndian Artist. Spring 1998, p.26.

Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.172.

Fognell, Eva and Alexander Brier Marr, eds. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection at the Fenimore Art Museum, 2nd ed. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2016, p. 196.

Murdock, Michelle, ed. 50 at 20: Masterpieces of American Indian Art from the Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, NY: Fenimore Art Museum, 2015, p. 15.
On View
On view
Bag
Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty
1988
Shield
Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne)
c. 1900
Medallion
Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty
c. 1996
Otterskin Bag
Ho-Chunk (Winnebago)
c. 1890
Martingale
Apsaalooke (Crow)
c. 1885
Pipe
c. 1825-1835
Leggings
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
c. 1890
Purse
Juanita Fogarty
1992
Bags
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
c. 1880
Pouch
Cheyenne or Arapaho
c. 1845

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