To Honor The Plains Nations on exhibition in the John and Adrienne Mars Gallery of American Indian Art displays pre-reservation and post-reservation era items from the Bradford Brinton Memorial and Bradford Brinton Memorial & Museum Collections; Edith and Goelet Gallatin American Indian Art Collection; and The Brinton Museum Collections.

Bradford Brinton collected American Indian art primarily representative of the Northern Great Plains Indian Peoples and the southwest and northwest coast tribes. Subsequent to Mr. Brinton’s ownership of the Quarter Circle A Ranch, the museum substantially expanded its American Indian collections when through the Foundation for the Preservation of American Indian Art & Culture the Gallatin Collection of Crow/Apsáalooke, Lakota, and Cheyenne items was gifted to the institution. A pictographic painted muslin dated 1899 by Stephen Standing Bear (Minneconjou/Lakota) depicting the events leading to the Battle of the Little Big Horn; an Apache Woman’s Dress and Moccasins, c.1850s; and a rare Blackfeet War Chief’s Shirt and Leggings, c.1830s, are among more recent accessions.