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Object Number
985-27-10/60313
Display Title
Sioux woman's dress. Made from buckskin with beaded yoke
Descriptions
Object Description
Sioux woman's dress. Made from buckskin. Lazystitch beadwork across chest, back, shoulders and sleeves. Blue ground w/ geometric designs in red, yellow, pink, dark blue and green. 3 rows of beadwork around bottom. Fringe down sides, along bottom and on sleeve. 135x140 cm.
Inventory Description
Dress, beaded yoke, diamond and linear design, fringed body and edges
Classification
- Dress
Department
Ethnographic
Date
19th century
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
Materials
Leather, Glass, Buckskin
Dimensions
Overall: 151 x 107.5 x 2 cm (59 7/16 x 42 5/16 x 13/16 in.)
Quantity
2
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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