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Object Number
18-11-10/87320
Display Title
Breast plate
Descriptions
Inventory Description
Breast plate, 7 rows of dentalium shells separated with parfleche strips
Classification
- Jewelry
Department
Ethnographic
Culture
- Sioux
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America
/
United States
/
North Dakota
Materials
Parfleche, Dentalium, Pigment
Dimensions
Overall: 27 x 22 x 0.3 cm (10 5/8 x 8 11/16 x 1/8 in.)
Quantity
1
Label on object
87320
Provenance
Collector
Unknown
(1893 ca.)
Donor
William DeForest Thomson
(1918)
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