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40-8-2

From: United States of America

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 40-8-2
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sioux (uncertain)
Provenience United States of America
Culture Area Great Plains Culture Area
Section American
Materials Stroud | Deer Hide | Feather | Skin
Description

Red stroud case with four bars of deer hide. Eighty-two cut plumes along the case and held together by a thong. Three long eagle plumes attached by buckskin thongs. A stroud streamer bearing rows of shorter feathers thirteen inches below end of case which has a bunch of many feathers tied to it.

Length 228.6 cm
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth C. Clark, 1940

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