Southern Cheyenne Beaded and Fringed Hide Girl's Dress

overlaid across the shoulders with hide strips, each sinew sewn in white, faceted dark green and blue, and translucent red glass seed beads, with a series of alternating rectangular panels, the hemline surmounted by a beaded zigzag band and decorated with red ochre and small brass hawk bells, the yellow ochre-dyed yoke, trimmed with 155 cowries shells; two small beaded bundles on the neckline and additional cowrie shell pendants at the waist.

James T. Hooper (1897-1971), England
Christie's London, June 1986, lot 12
Alex Acevedo, New York
Laura and Richard Fisher Collection
Howard Roloff, British Columbia
John W. Painter Collection, Cincinnati OH
Acquired from Grimmer-Roche

The Cincinnati Art Museum: "A Window on the Past," October 18, 2002- March 30, 2003 

S. Phelps, Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas - The James Hooper Collection, 1976, p. 341, no. 1618, illustrated

John W. Painter, A Window on the Past, Early Native American Dress from The John Painter Collection, 2002, Cincinnati Art Museum, pl. 55, illustrated

Very good condition with typical wear from age and use. Very minor bead loss and/or lose beads. Some light staining on the hide which is otherwise quite supple.
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This lot is accompanied by a copy of  Art and Artefacts of the Pacific, Africa, and the Americas - The James Hooper Collection.