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NA11709

From: Plains (Culture Area)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number NA11709
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux
Provenience Plains (Culture Area)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Elkskin | Quill | Bead | Buckskin | Fiber
Description

Ceremonial. Quadrangular with long, quilled thong for tying. Elkskin, quilled red, yellow, purple, green, orange. Design: long triangle enclosing vertical line of smaller triangles flanked by "horns" and bars; lower section solidly beaded; long buckskin fringe. Lined wtih red and black calico.

Length 38.73 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Philadelphia Art Galleries Auction, 1927
Other Number 554 - Other Number

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