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Object Number
985-27-10/60239
Display Title
Shirt
Descriptions
Object Description
Sioux shirt. Mostly painted blue w/ some yellow. Panels of beadwork attached, white ground w/ geometric designs in blue, red, green and metallic gold seed beads. Light brown locks of hair partially wrapped w/ quills(?) attached. Neck is trimmed w/ red cloth. 109.3x66.2 cm.
On visual inspection hair may be human.
Inventory Description
Leather shirt, painted green top, banded beadwork, hair and quill fringe
Classification
- Shirt
Department
Ethnographic
Date
1800-1899?
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Dimensions
Overall: 104 x 168 cm (40 15/16 x 66 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Provenance
Collector
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(? - 1985)
Collector
Jacob Paxson Temple
(1900-1920 - ?)
Donor
Estate of William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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