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Object Number 38-44-10/12796
Display Title Blue cloth coat trimmed in dentalia shells and bells
Descriptions
Inventory Description Dress, navy blue wool, cloth and dentalia decoration
Classification
  • Dress
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms Plains
Dimensions Overall: 133.5 x 134 cm (52 9/16 x 52 3/4 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 38-44-10/12796
Provenance
Collector Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman (1888-1916)
Donor Mrs. Henry H. Richardson (1938)

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