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Flap for bag - deer skin fringed with porcupine quill and bead decoration;
Flap for bag - deer skin fringed with porcupine quill and bead decoration;
Object Number 44-40-10/27493
Display Title Flap for bag - deer skin fringed with porcupine quill and bead decoration;
Descriptions
Inventory Description Ornament, rectangular, quilled figurative and stripe design, bead band, fringed
Classification
  • Ornament
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
Materials Leather, Porcupine quill, Glass
Dimensions Overall: 15.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 x 1/16 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 44-40-10/27493
Provenance
Collector Daniel Dorchester, D.D. (1889-1894)
Donor Cleora Hatch (1944)

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