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Object Number 2004.29.5649
Display Title Drawing of "Medicine Snake Woman"
Descriptions
Transcribed Annotations Written on board: "Sioux, Blackfeet, United States. "Medicine Snake Woman": An Old [Woman] of a Dying Race; Gift of Gordon MacGregor, 1929."
Keywords
  • Proper Name
  • Drawing and Graphics
  • Ethnographic
Subject
  • Medicine Snake Woman
  • Drawing
Department Photographic
Date 1900-1929
Culture
  • Blackfoot
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms High Plains
Dimensions Overall: 10.16 x 15.24 cm (4 x 6 in.)
Provenance
Donor Donated by Gordon MacGregor

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