Paintbrush
- Date created
- circa 1880
- Culture/People
- Hunkpapa Lakota [Standing Rock]
- Previous owner
- Alphonse Bears Ghost (Alphonse Bearsghost), Hunkpapa Lakota [Standing Rock], 1896-1972
- Collector
- Margaret R. Elliott, Non-Indian, 1887-1976
- Previous owner
- Margaret R. Elliott, Non-Indian, 1887-1976
- Seller
- Margaret R. Elliott, Non-Indian, 1887-1976
- Collection History
- Given by Alphonse Bears Ghost (Hunkpapa Lakota) to Margaret R. Elliott (1887-1976) while she worked as a nurse and missionary in Cannon Ball, North Dakota in 1919; purchased by MAI from Miss Elliott in 1963.
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- Place
- Cannon Ball, Standing Rock Reservation; Sioux County; North Dakota; USA
- See related items
- Hunkpapa Lakota [Standing Rock]
- Art and Printing tools
- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Catalog Number
- 23/2985
- Barcode
- 232985.000
- Object Type
- Art and Printing tools
- Object Name
- Paintbrush
- Media/Materials
- Buffalo bone, pigment/pigments
- Techniques
- Ground
- Dimensions
- 8 x 4 x 2 cm
- Record ID
- NMAI_248187