Collection record · Dress & textiles
Hide Shirt
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated c. 1890. Recorded culture or place: America, Native North American, Central Plains, Lakota Sioux, 19th century.
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- Museum title
- Hide Shirt
- Date
- c. 1890
- Culture / origin
- America, Native North American, Central Plains, Lakota Sioux, 19th century
- Materials and technique
- hide, pigment, glass beads, human hair
- Dimensions
- Overall: 97.8 x 150 cm (38 1/2 x 59 1/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1984.1046
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Traditionally, only Lakota (Sioux) head chiefs had the right to wear painted shirts, an honor they earned through sacrifice and bravery but lost by failing in their responsibilities. By the time this example was created, European Americans had confined the Lakota to reservations, and painted shirts had become the privilege of battle veterans rather than of active warriors. Family members probably donated the locks of hair, each representing a war exploit.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Bequest of David S. McMillan · CC0
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