Cup

22354

From: United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 22354
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Yankton | Sioux
Provenience United States of America | Montana | Fort Peck Reservation
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Buffalo Horn | Hide | Quill | Glass | Tin | Hair
Description

Buffalo horn cup, ornamented with strips of hide covered with quillwork. The quillwork is red and yellow, and each strip has a tassel of yellow hair encased in metal at the tip. Six of the tassels are missing and several more are damaged. There is also a ring of blue beading around the aperture of the cup.

Credit Line Gift of Mary Yorke and Ellen McIlvaine Macauley, 1902

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