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Object Number
38-44-10/12816
Display Title
Breast ornament
Descriptions
Object Description
Breast ornament made of 3 strands of bone pipe-stem beads separated by 4 beads on a strand
Inventory Description
Necklace, 3 strands of pipe bone separated by beads
Classification
- Necklace
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Sioux?
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Additional Geographic Terms
Plains
Materials
Pipe bone, Glass, Metal
Dimensions
Overall: 59 x 6 x 0.9 cm (23 1/4 x 2 3/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
38-44-10/12816
Provenance
Collector
Dr. Theodore Jewett Eastman
(1888-1916 - ?)
Collector
Capt. C. W. Riggs
(?)
Donor
Mrs. Henry H. Richardson
(1938)
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