Object Number | 21390 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sioux (uncertain) |
Provenience | Plains (Culture Area) |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Skin | Feather | Hair |
Description | Tanned buffalo hide with a cover of buckskin. Ornamented with pendant eagle feathers and deer tails and painted half yellow and half white. Painted design on the yellow half of a red sun surrounded by fourteen sets of parallel red lines and a red star with a yellow center. A yellow star outlined in red and with a red center is painted on the white half. An 8.5 inch bone whistle is attached with a thong. |
Length | 48 cm |
Width | 10 cm |
Outside Diameter | 44.8 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, 1898 |
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