sinew-sewn with glass bead colors of cobalt, light blue, red white-heart, greasy yellow, and white; fringe hangs along side and bottom; one bag repaired with canvas, length 45 in. x width 11.5 in. Collected by General James Marshall (1818-1891). Marshall was heavily active in Native rights, abolition of land tenure, and temperance. He was an active officer of the American Unitarian Association, and vigorously aided the Association’s projects on Indian reservations as the Associations Secretary for for Southern and Indian Educational Work; the Montana Industrial School for Crow Indians, modeled on the Hampton, Tuskegee (1985: 2-4). He also was the director of the Hampton Institute for Sioux children in the 1870s. Some of Smith's collection was loaned to the Stamford Museum in Stamford, Connecticut. For more information see: Kennedy, Donald G. “James Marshall, Part II” in The Weston Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. XXI, No. 4. (May 1985, issued January 1987). http://www.westonhistory.org/Bulletins/James-Marshall-Part-II-May-1985.pdf Provenance:Previously sold in these rooms April 2008, lot 367.
sinew-sewn with glass bead colors of cobalt, light blue, red white-heart, greasy yellow, and white; fringe hangs along side and bottom; one bag repaired with canvas, length 45 in. x width 11.5 in. Collected by General James Marshall (1818-1891). Marshall was heavily active in Native rights, abolition of land tenure, and temperance. He was an active officer of the American Unitarian Association, and vigorously aided the Association’s projects on Indian reservations as the Associations Secretary for for Southern and Indian Educational Work; the Montana Industrial School for Crow Indians, modeled on the Hampton, Tuskegee (1985: 2-4). He also was the director of the Hampton Institute for Sioux children in the 1870s. Some of Smith's collection was loaned to the Stamford Museum in Stamford, Connecticut. For more information see: Kennedy, Donald G. “James Marshall, Part II” in The Weston Historical Society Bulletin, Vol. XXI, No. 4. (May 1985, issued January 1987). http://www.westonhistory.org/Bulletins/James-Marshall-Part-II-May-1985.pdf Provenance:Previously sold in these rooms April 2008, lot 367.
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