Parfleche Envelope
CultureLakota (Teton Sioux), North or South Dakota
Dateca. 1880
MediumRawhide and commercial pigment
DimensionsOverall: 26 1/4 × 15 × 4 1/2 inches (66.68 × 38.1 × 11.43 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mell Meredith Frazier
Object number2016.83
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DescriptionRectangular rawhide folded case with geometric designs in red, yellow and blue on a yellow ground.Exhibition HistoryThe American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, May 28 - August 7, 1994, no. 13.
Robert Musser, Boulder and Aspen, CO;
Gaylord Torrence, Kansas City, MO;
Katie and Ted Meredith, Des Moines, IA;
Mell Meredith Frazier, Des Moines, IA;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, KC, MO, 2016.
Gaylord Torrence, The American Indian Parfleche: A Tradition of Abstract Painting, exh. cat. (Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press in association with the Des Moines Art Center, 1994), 94, 95.
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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