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Object Number
985-27-10/60166
Display Title
Sioux child's dress. Made from buckskin fringed along sides and at bottom
Descriptions
Object Description
Sioux child's dress. Made from buckskin fringed along sides and at bottom of dress and at sleeves. 2 horizontal rows of prairie dog leg bones creating a fringe around dress. Above each row is a row of lazystitch beadwork. Cloth trim around neck. Tinkler fringe at bottom corners. 51.6x66.3 cm.
Inventory Description
Dress, beaded designs on leather, with fringe, paint, bones, cone tinklers
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
South Dakota
Additional Geographic Terms
Pine Ridge Reservation
Dimensions
Overall: 52.3 x 67.6 x 2.7 cm (20 9/16 x 26 5/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
Quantity
2
Label on object
985-27-10/60166; 24914
Provenance
Collector
William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1930)
Collector
William Radcliff Morris
(1878-1893 - 1930)
Donor
Estate of William H. Claflin, Jr.
(1985)
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