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Robe with Warriors
Missouri River region, possibly Mandan or Yankton
Not on view
Several male artists worked together on this robe that tells the story of their victories in war. The battle scenes, painted in the early pictographic tradition, contain simple outlined figures of sixty-four warriors and horses. A mounted warrior holding a shield and a pipe represents a war leader. For years, scholars believed that Lewis and Clark acquired this robe on their famous expedition of 1804–6. Based on a 2003 study, however, it now seems likely that Clark’s nephew George C. Hutter obtained the garment twenty years later.
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