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Object Number 2002.25.5
Display Title Boy's fringed and beaded shirt
Descriptions
Object Description Boy's fringed and beaded shirt with strips of red and blue beads along shoulders and edges of neck flaps, pigmented yellow.
Inventory Description Shirt, hide with yellow pigment, fringed, blue with red beaded stripes
Classification
  • Shirt
Department Ethnographic
Date ca. 1875
Culture
  • Kiowa?
  • Comanche?
  • Cheyenne?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States
Additional Geographic Terms Southern Plains
Dimensions Overall: 68.5 x 81.2 x 4.2 cm (26 15/16 x 31 15/16 x 1 5/8 in.)
Quantity 1
Credit Line Gift of the family of David Q. Wells, St. Louis, MO
Provenance
Owner Eloise Compton Long Wells (1950)
Collector Stephen Harriman Long
Donor Rebecca J. Mattison (12/14/02)

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