Dance Apron
NA3497
From: United States of America
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | NA3497 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Arapaho |
| Provenience | United States of America |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Hide | Quill | Horsehair | Feather |
| Subject | Ghost Dance |
| Description | Red-dyed hide with one scalloped edge. Front decorated with crosses and bands of yellow quill. Three horsehair ornaments are attached with yellow, quill-wrapped buckskin thongs with feathers at the ends. Middle horsehair ornament has additional buckskin thongs, some with hooves attached. One wooden hoop wrapped with brown and yellow quills tied to proper left near top. Buckskin ties at either end of apron. |
| Length | 50 cm |
| Width | 30 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915 |
| Other Number | G133 - Gordon Number |
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