Second Phase Chief's Blanket

Provenance

Collected by Edmund Bell in Ouray, Colorado, from Chief Ouray, a Ute, in the late 1870's. Bell reportedly befriended Ouray while acting as a contractor for the construction of Indian Agency buildings on a reservation.

PUBLISHED

Donald Ellis Gallery catalogue, 2007, pgs. 20-21
Brasser, Ted. J. Native American Clothing: An Illustrated History. Toronto: Firefly Books, 2009, pg. 203