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Beaded Valise

Nellie Two Bear Gates, Mahpiya Bogawin, Gathering of Clouds Woman Native American

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746

Nellie Gates made this case for her daughter Josephine as a gift upon her graduation from the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. On one side, she beaded the deeds of her father, Two Bear, in the 1863 Battle of White Stone Hill. On the reverse, she created images of the Lakota’s last big buffalo hunt in 1882. Gates was one of the most accomplished bead workers of her time. She created many other objects to honor meaningful events in her family history.

Beaded Valise, Nellie Two Bear Gates, Mahpiya Bogawin, Gathering of Clouds Woman (Native American, Dakota, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, born 1854), Commercial and native-tanned leather, glass beads, metal, Dakota

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Beaded Valise, Nellie Two Bear Gates, Mahpiya Bogawin, Gathering of Clouds Woman (Native American, Dakota, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, born 1854), Commercial and native-tanned leather, glass beads, metal, Dakota
Beaded Valise, Nellie Two Bear Gates, Mahpiya Bogawin, Gathering of Clouds Woman (Native American, Dakota, Standing Rock Reservation, North Dakota, born 1854), Commercial and native-tanned leather, glass beads, metal, Dakota

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