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Object Number
985-27-10/59457
Display Title
Hair Pipe Breastplate
Descriptions
Object Description
Sioux breastplate originally belonging to Big Mouth a Sioux chief. Made from bone hair pipes. 2 sections of 42 rows each separated by a leather strip. Leather strip on each side. Each row consists of bonehair pipes w/ a brass bead on outside end of each row. Strung w/ leather strips. 42.5x28 cm.
Inventory Description
Breast ornament, 2 rows hairpipe bone attached to leather, red beads at top
Classification
- Breast ornament
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Brule Sioux
- Oglala Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Bone, Leather, Glass, Brass, Deerskin
Dimensions
Overall: 62.7 x 34.9 x 1.2 cm (24 11/16 x 13 3/4 x 1/2 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
985-27-10/59457
Provenance
Owner
Chief Big Mouth
(1878-1893)
Collector
William Radcliff Morris
(1878-1893 - 1930)
Collector
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1930)
Donor
Estate of William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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