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45-15-1245

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-1245
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Arapaho (uncertain)
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Feather | Hide | Quill | Grass | Hair
Description

Seven wing feathers set between rawhide squares, sewed in with buckskin thong. Quills of first, fourth and seventh are covered by grass-wrapped rawhide strips. Yellow horsehair and strips of red flannel decorate the tips. Two rawhide loops grass-wrapped and short thongs at base. Rawhide stained green.

Length 34 cm
Width 10.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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