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| Object Number: | 45-15-1245 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Arapaho (uncertain) |
| Provenience: | Great Plains (Plain) |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Feather Hide Quill Grass Hair |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
Description
Seven wing feathers set between rawhide squares, sewed in with buckskin thong. Quills of first, fourth and seventh are covered by grass-wrapped rawhide strips. Yellow horsehair and strips of red flannel decorate the tips. Two rawhide loops grass-wrapped and short thongs at base. Rawhide stained green.
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