Snake Dance Outfit

Anklet (uncertain)

38783C

From: Arizona | Oraibi | Third Mesa

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 38783C
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Hopi
Provenience Arizona | Oraibi | Third Mesa
Culture Area Southwest Culture Area
Section American
Materials Leather | Pigment
Description

Pair of ankle bands made from rectangular bands of buckskin dyed red. Each has a strip of long fringe sewn on to the front using thin strips of buckskin. The ankle bands wrap around the leg and are secured by a knotted band of fringe at one end that inserts into a hole at the other end. One band is damaged.

Credit Line Wanamaker Expedition to the Southwest, R. Stewart Culin, 1901

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