Object Number | 74-24-23 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux (uncertain) |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Buckskin | Bead | Tin | Quill | Fiber |
Description | The rigid center section of the quirt is made of bucksin wrapped around a piece of wood. Two long cotton strips at one end, three long cotton strips at other end. The buckskin center section is covered with light blue beads with bands of navy and yellow beads. There are two metal tinklers on the ends of each cotton strip. Two of the cotton strips are wrapped in the center with red and yellow porcupine quills. One strip wrapped with yellow quills only. |
Length | 108.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Anne Rowland, 1974 |
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