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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.
Artist
Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty
(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 viewc. 1825-1835
c. 1845
