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Object Number 03-38-10/62810
Display Title Hair ornament
Descriptions
Object Description Hair ornament
Inventory Description Leather with fur strips, briaded fiber with beads, two shells, brass ring
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux?
  • Crow?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Montana / Custer County / Miles City
Dimensions Overall: 32 x 3.5 x 1.3 cm (12 5/8 x 1 3/8 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Provenance
Collector Unknown
Donor Unknown (1903)

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