Format/Object name:
Winter count recording events from 1800 to 1870
Date created:
1870-1885
Artists/Makers:
Lone Dog (Shunka Ishnala), Nakota (Yankton Sioux)
Place:
Plains; USA, Canada (inferred)
Media/Materials:
Buffalo hide/skin, paint
Techniques:
Painted
Collection History/Provenance:
Collection history unknown; said to have been purchased from the family of Captain Chichester by Stephen Allen Frost (ca. 1820-ca. 1905, New York City bead merchant and Indian trader and founder of Stephen A. Frost & Son), circa 1880; acquired by George Heye before 1906.
Dimensions:
259 x 207 cm
Catalog number:
1/617
This item is currently on view at NMAI, DC.
See it in the Lakota exhibit in the "Our Universes" gallery on the 4th floor
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