Hunter's Shirt
| Culture | Mande |
|---|---|
| Title | Hunter's Shirt (Donson Dlokiw ) |
| Date | 1969-1971 |
| Medium | Cotton, pigment, leather, animal teeth, claws, and and horns |
| Dimensions | Overall: 33 1/2 x 51 1/2 in. (85.1 x 130.8 cm) |
| Credit Line | Gift of Patrick McNaughton, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University |
| Accession Number | 2004.33 |
| This artwork is currently off display. You may be able to see this artwork by filling out an art viewing room request. | |
A hand-woven shirt with a v-shape neckline, short sleeves and openings beneath each arm. Individual pieces of horns, animal teeth, and claws are attached to the shirt with thin pieces of leather.
2004, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Patrick McNaughton, Bloomington, IN
1971, Patrick McNaughton purchase in Mali [1]
ca. 1969–71, unidentified person acquires cloth in Burkina Faso [2]
ca. 1969–71, unidentified owner(s), possibly in Mande culture, Mali, Burkina Faso, and/or other places [3]
Notes
[1] per correspondence from the donor (Eskenazi Museum records).
[2] per correspondence from the donor. The person who McNaughton purchased the garment from told McNaughton that he had acquired it in Burkina Faso (Eskenazi Museum records).
[3] We do not yet know how many changes in ownership transpired between when this artwork was initially made and owned to when the person who Patrick McNaughton purchased it from had acquired it. This absence of documentation on ownership history within the cultures where the artworks were made and used is part of a larger history of collecting practices that did not record prior ownership among communities of origin.
Provenance research is ongoing for this and many other items in the Eskenazi Museum of Art permanent collection. For more information about the provenance of this artwork, please contact the department curator with specific questions.
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"Hunter's Shirt | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2026. https://collections.artmuseum.indiana.edu/browse/object.php?number=2004.33