Details
A FINE SIOUX WAR BONNET, sewn with twenty-nine eagle feathers bound at the base with mustard-coloured felt, some tips retaining red and orange-dyed feathers, a panel of geometric beadwork in red, yellow, blue and white to the front, a hide disc with red and white quillwork and blue bead border to each side, suspending tassels of ermine, red cloth and red, white and blue ribbon, the felt cap sewn with further feathers and cloth tassels
Provenance
Chief White Horse of the Southern Yankton Sioux
Pauline Boumphrey, sculptor (1886-1959)
Pauline Boumphrey was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After the death of her elder brother (when she was four years old) her parents raised her as a boy and she developed interests in horse-riding and shooting. She came to England where she married a textile manufacturer, and returned to Boston on at least one occasion and befriended Chief White Horse, of the Southern Yankton Sioux, who had sat on the Last Great Indian Council held in the valley of the Little Horn, Montana, September, 1909. She produced a bronze portrait bust of him and presented him with a model. He in return presented her with this headdress and the bowcase and pipe bag in the following lot.
Pauline Boumphrey, sculptor (1886-1959)
Pauline Boumphrey was born in Boston, Massachusetts. After the death of her elder brother (when she was four years old) her parents raised her as a boy and she developed interests in horse-riding and shooting. She came to England where she married a textile manufacturer, and returned to Boston on at least one occasion and befriended Chief White Horse, of the Southern Yankton Sioux, who had sat on the Last Great Indian Council held in the valley of the Little Horn, Montana, September, 1909. She produced a bronze portrait bust of him and presented him with a model. He in return presented her with this headdress and the bowcase and pipe bag in the following lot.