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Saddle

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Object Number:97-84-2015
Current Location: Native American Voices
Currently On Display
Culture:Blackfeet (uncertain)
Provenience: Great Plains (Plain)
Culture Area: Great Plains Culture Area
Section:American
Materials:Wood
Rawhide
Beads
Credit Line:Gift of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1997
Other Number:L-84-2015 - Old Museum Number
15664 - ANSP Number

Description

Wooden; padded and covered with rawhide; ends solidly beaded in floral designs on white ground. Four short, broad beaded flaps. Design influenced by Ojibwa culture. Stirrups of wood and rawhide, attached to saddle. Girth of webbing and harness straps.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Native American Voices: The People - Here and Now (01 Mar 2014) View Objects in Exhibition

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