Breast Ornament
97-84-1615
From: United States of America | Oklahoma
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 97-84-1615 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Arapaho |
| Provenience | United States of America | Oklahoma |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Locus | near Canadian River |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bone | Leather | Metal |
| Description | Boy's frontlet with bone hair pipes, three rows between vertical leather bars. Sleigh bells. This breastplate or frontlet was made for a small boy. It is a smaller edition of the one worn by his father. The long slim animal bones are strung horizontally in three rows between vertical leather bars which are decorated with sleigh bells. |
| Length | 19 cm |
| Width | 16 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997 |
| Other Number | L-84-1615 - Old Museum Number | 17484 - ANSP Number | I 207 - Gottschall Number |
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