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Shirt
unknownc. 1876
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
This shirt was presented to Lieutenant Governor Alexander Morris by Chief Sweet Grass, presumably at the time of negotiating Treaty Six, September 6-13, 1876. Sweet Grass was a head Chief of the Plains Cree. The shirt was made for a man about six feet in height, like Alexander Morris. Sweet Grass was of diminutive stature.
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Details
- Title: Shirt
- Creator: unknown
- Creator Lifespan: unknown
- Date: c. 1876
- Physical Dimensions: w69 cm
- Provenance: Edmund Morris Collection
- Type: Shirt
- Rights: Royal Ontario Museum
- Medium: wool cloth; beads; weasel skins; brass
- Length: 94
- Culture: Plains Cree
- Collector Information: Edmund Morris lived from 1871 to 1913, a period of rapid transition in which the Plains Indian tribes shifted from nomadic dependence on the buffalo to settlement on parcels of land called “reserves.” From 1907 to 1911, Edmund journeyed to reserves in the newly formed prairie provinces to create an intimate and thoughtful record of Indian life through pastel sketches, photography, the written word, and a collection of artifacts. As the youngest son of Alexander Morris, the Lieutenant Governor who negotiated most of the Plains Indian treaties, Edmund had a deep commitment to his task. His work provides remarkable insight into the lives of the Plains people and their communities. In 1913 he donated his extraordinary collection of artifacts and his diary to the Royal Ontario Museum, the same year the Province of Ontario transferred to the musuem its collection of 58 Plains portraits by Morris.
- Accession Number: 913.14.3
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