Breast Plate

Frontlet

45-15-567

From: Plains (Culture Area)

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 45-15-567
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Plains Indian
Provenience Plains (Culture Area)
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Bone | Shell | Porcelain | Rawhide | Metal
Description

Woman's shirt. 4 tiers of vertical bone pipes, between white shell disc and blue porcelain beads. The pipes are divided into 2 groups of 3 held by rawhide strips but all held at lower end by one strip to which are attached 4 tinkling thimbles, buckskin ties.

Length 56 cm
Width 6.5 cm
Credit Line Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945

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