Dance Bustle
| Object Number: | 45-15-537 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sioux |
| Provenience: | United States of America South Dakota |
| Culture Area: | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section: | American |
| Materials: | Buckskin Eagle Feather Hawk Feather Glass Quill Metal Fiber |
| Technique: | Beaded |
| Length: | 160 cm |
| Credit Line: | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
Description
Back of an eagle in center, above a square of buckskin. Beaded with blue, white tipis, on yellow ground, cut into strips below. Wrapped in red quill , finished with tinklers, pendants of blue stroud, eagle feathers. The center one quilled, feather tipped, two standards, of eagle feathers, quill strips. Ribbon tassels and bells, with bunches of hawk feathers at their base, knitted waist sash striped light and dark blue, green, and yellow.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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