Museum Exhibition
Catalogue of Works
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
30 documented works

Delaware Artist
Shoulder bag
ca. 1840
Wool cloth, cotton cloth, wool yarn, glass beads, silk cloth, silk ribbon, and metal cones
H. 30 × W. 17 1/4 in. (76.2 × 43.8 cm)
View at museumHelen Lonetree
Lidded Basket
ca. 1940
Ash splint, wood, pigment
H. 14 1/2 x W. 24 x D. 15 in. (36.8 x 61 x 38.1 cm)
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Yup'ik, Native American
Mask
ca. 1900
Wood, pigment, vegetal fiber, iron nails, and feathers
34 1/2 × 22 × 9 1/2 in. (87.6 × 55.9 × 24.1 cm)
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Alutiiq/ Sugpiaq, Native American
Mask
ca. 1870
Wood and pigment
15 3/4 × 7 3/4 × 4 1/2 in. (40 × 19.7 × 11.4 cm)
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Kiowa, Native American
Cradleboard
ca. 1875
Tanned leather, rawhide, wood, pigment, glass beads, wool cloth, cotton cloth, brass tacks, and brass link chain
42 1/2 × 12 7/8 × 8 3/4 in. (108 × 32.7 × 22.2 cm)
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Eastern Plains, probably Meskwaki, Native American
Quirt handle
ca. 1860
Elk antler and pigment
2 × 2 3/8 × 14 5/8 in. (5.1 × 6 × 37.1 cm)
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Albert Edward Edenshaw
Raven rattle
ca. 1850
Wood, pigment, glass beads and vegetal fiber
4 3/4 × 13 3/8 × 3 9/16 in. (12 × 34 × 9 cm)
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Anishinaabe, probably Ottawa, Native American
Bowl
ca. 1800
Maple
6 3/4 × 9 3/4 × 12 3/4 in. (17.1 × 24.8 × 32.4 cm)
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Pawnee, Native American
War club
ca. 1800
Wood and pigment
27 × 5 × 3/4 in. (68.6 × 12.7 × 1.9 cm)
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Tsimshian , Native American
Headdress frontlet
ca. 1820–40
Wood, abalone shell, pigment, and nails
7 × 6 × 2 3/4 in. (17.8 × 15.2 × 7 cm)
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Lakota/ Teton Sioux, Native American
Dress
ca. 1870
Tanned leather and glass beads
35 × 48 in. (88.9 × 121.9 cm)
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Yup'ik, Native American
Mask
ca. 1900
Wood, pigment, and vegetal fiber
20 1/2 × 15 × 8 in. (52.1 × 38.1 × 20.3 cm)
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Ancestral Columbia River, Native American
Pendant with figure
3rd–13th century
Bone and pigment
10 1/4 × 3 × 1/4 in. (26 × 7.6 × 0.6 cm)
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Tlingit, Native American
Dagger
ca. 1780–1840
Wood, steel, and vegetal fiber
18 x 2 x 3/4 in 45.7 x 5.1 x 1.9 cm
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Tewa, Native American
Powhoge polychrome storage jar
ca. 1790
Clay and pigment
19 × 17 1/2 in. (48.3 × 44.5 cm)
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Wasco, Native American
Beaded Bag
ca. 1860
Tanned leather, cordage, glass beads, brass beads, and commercial brass buttons
28 × 6 3/4 in. (71.1 × 17.1 cm)
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Tlingit
Hat
ca. 1830
Spruce root, shell, ermine, glass beads, pigment, cotton cloth, and tanned leather
7 1/2 × 12 in. (19.1 × 30.5 cm)
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Acoma, Native American
Women's Acoma Cape or Dress
ca. 1850
Handspun undyed and indigo-dyed Churro fleece and cochineal-dyed raveled bayeta
H. 48 × W. 58 in. (121.9 × 147.3 cm)
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Rabbett Before Horses Strickland
Nokomis and Nanaboozhoo
2024
Oil on canvas
48 3/8 × 69 3/4 × 1 in. (122.9 × 177.2 × 2.5 cm)
View at museumAlutiiq/ Sugpiaq, Native American
Atlatl
ca. 1750–80
Wood and walrus ivory
19 1/4 × 3 3/4 × 1 1/4 in. (48.9 × 9.5 × 3.2 cm)
View at museumMary Mono
Gift basket
ca. 1890
Sedge and dyed bulrush root, clamshell-disc beads, glass beads, and quail topknot feathers
3 x 6 ¾ in. (7.5 x 17 cm)
View at museumTlingit, Native American
Comb
ca. 1860
Wood and pigment
9 3/4 × 3 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (24.8 × 8.9 × 3.8 cm)
View at museumTlingit, Native American
Mask
ca. 1860
Wood and pigment
8 1/2 × 6 × 3 3/4 in. (21.6 × 15.2 × 9.5 cm)
View at museumChugach, Native American
Mask
1860
Wood, vegetable fiber and pigment
16 1/2 × 8 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (41.9 × 21.6 × 11.4 cm)
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Woodlands: Anishnaabe, Ottawa or Ojibwa
Belt cup
c. 1820
Wood, nail, lead? staple
6 5/16 x 3 5/8 x 2 in (16.7 x 9.2 x 5.1 cm)
View at museumLenni Lenape (Delaware) Artist
Shakhùkwiàn (Man’s Coat)
ca. 1840
Hide, cloth, glass beads, cotton thread, sinew
39 × 63 in. (99.1 × 160 cm)
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Tlingit
Tlingit Basket
ca. 1900
Woven natural grasses
Height: 4 in. (10.2 cm)Diameter (of top): 6 in. (15.2 cm)Diameter (of base): 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm)
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