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Object Number
979-7-10/58739
Display Title
Beaded rawhide dress
Descriptions
Object Description
Native tanned buckskin dress, adorned with seed beads and tin tinklers. Stitched with sinew. 154 cm across arms x 154 cm l.
Inventory Description
Dress, beaded yoke design, also at waist and hemline, fringed, metal tinklers
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1880
Culture
- Crow?
- Blackfoot?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
Wyoming
Additional Geographic Terms
Northern Plains
Materials
Leather, Glass, Metal tinkler, Wool
Dimensions
Overall: 132.5 x 70.8 cm (52 3/16 x 27 7/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
979-7-10/58739
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(?)
Donor
Shady Hill School
(1979)
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