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Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, December 6, 1994 - May 2, 1995.
The Flag in American Indian Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. August 30, 1998 - January 18, 1998; High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA. February 21, 1998 - June 13, 1998 Historical Society of Saginaw County, (Castle Museum), Saginaw, MI, August 1, 1998 - September 27, 1998; Houston Museum of Natural Science, October 1998 - March, 1999; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE. July 3, 1999 - August 29, 1999; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT, October 1999 – December 1999.
ProvenanceJames Waste, California; Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, California; Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyButterfield & Butterfield. March 18, 1988, lot 4524.
Herbst, Toby, and Joel Kopp. The Flag in American Indian Art. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1993, pp. 36-37, pl. 13.
"The Flag in American Indian Art." Whispering Wind. Vol.28, No.6 (1997):47.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.132.
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. 161.
Culture
Lakota (Teton Sioux)
Vest
Date1890-1910
MediumGlass beads, hide
DimensionsOverall: 21 × 19 1/4 in. (53.3 × 48.9 cm)
Object numberT0355
Credit LineGift of Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw
Photograph by John Bigelow Taylor, NYC
Label Text
On the back of this vest a Sioux warrior and a U.S Army officer meet and acknowledge their allegiance by touching war lance to flag. The Sioux warrior is highly decorated with an eagle warbonnet and eagle feathers attached to his war lance and his war horse’s tail. He seems to be wearing a vest very much like the one on which this scene is portrayed. The letters “W.U.B.N.” across the shoulders are the initials of the original owner. Exhibition HistoryMuseum of Our National Heritage, Lexington, MA, December 6, 1994 - May 2, 1995.
The Flag in American Indian Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ. August 30, 1998 - January 18, 1998; High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA. February 21, 1998 - June 13, 1998 Historical Society of Saginaw County, (Castle Museum), Saginaw, MI, August 1, 1998 - September 27, 1998; Houston Museum of Natural Science, October 1998 - March, 1999; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE. July 3, 1999 - August 29, 1999; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Mashantucket, CT, October 1999 – December 1999.
ProvenanceJames Waste, California; Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, California; Morning Star Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
BibliographyButterfield & Butterfield. March 18, 1988, lot 4524.
Herbst, Toby, and Joel Kopp. The Flag in American Indian Art. Cooperstown, NY: New York State Historical Association, 1993, pp. 36-37, pl. 13.
"The Flag in American Indian Art." Whispering Wind. Vol.28, No.6 (1997):47.
Vincent, Gilbert et al. Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection. Cooperstown, New York: Fenimore Art Museum, 2000, p.132.
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. 161.
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