Sioux
From the Shores of Hudson Bay to the Buffalo Country: a Unique Quilled Coat in the City Museum of Brunswick
Assiniboine, Cree, Hudson Bay, leather coat, Native Americans, Northeastern Plains, quillwork, SiouxBy: RUSLAN YENDRZHIYEVSKYY – My work is dedicated to a unique Native American coat with quillwork decoration. It has been kept in the City Museum of Braunschweig in Germany since 1899. This rare artifact is part of an important collection of North American artifacts from before 1783. It is often attributed to the Huron people,…
Eastern Sioux Cradleboards. Documentary Evidence and Attributions
By: CHRISTIAN F. FEEST – In her useful contribution to the study of the work of Giacomo Costantino Beltrami, Sandra Busatta (2021:47) argues that four pieces of quillwork in collections preserved in Bergamo and Filottrano were the surviving parts of a cradleboard he had collected in 1823 among the Dakota of Minnesota, making them together…