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Pair of Gauntlets

CultureLakota-Métis, North or South Dakota
Dateca. 1890
MediumNative tanned leather, glass and brass beads, and cotton cloth
Dimensions.1 (left): 14 × 7 3/4 inches (35.56 × 19.69 cm)
.2 (right): 15 × 8 inches (38.1 × 20.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of Berte and Alan Hirschfield
Object number2016.54.1,2
On View
Not on view
DescriptionLeather gloves with extedend cuffs beaded with abstract floral designs, flags, and roosters.Exhibition History

The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France, April 7 – July 20, 2014; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, September 19, 2014 – January 11, 2015; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, March 2 – May 10, 2015, catalogue number 94.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Alan and Berte Hirschfield, Jackson Hole, Wyoming;

Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016

Published References

Alan J. Hirschfield, Living with American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection, (Layton, Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2012), 8, 59-60.


Gaylord Torrence, et. al., The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky, exh. cat. (Paris, France: Éditions Skira Paris, 2014), 224.

Torrence, Gaylord, ed. Continuum: North American Native Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.



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