Roach

Spreader

45-15-505

From: Dakotas

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-505
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Provenience Dakotas
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Date Made 19th century
Section American
Materials Deer Hair | Bone | Porcupine Quill | Eagle Feather
Description

Woven of black and yellow porcupine bristles, and deer hair white and vermilion. Bone plate in center, carries bone tube in which is set an eagle feather, the quill of which is wrapped with colored porcupine quills.

Height 40 cm
Length 15 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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