Object Number | NA3562 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Blackfeet |
Provenience | Great Plains (Plain) |
Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
Section | American |
Materials | Skin | Bead | Bone (uncertain) | Teeth (uncertain) |
Description | Buckskin dress with long fringe at the lower hem. Arm holes are decorated with small, beaded squares of blue, red, and yellow parallel lines. Teeth attached in two rows around the yoke separated by one line of blue, red, and white beads. Lower hem has white and black vertical beaded lines. Arm holes are outlined in blue and yellow beads. Neck hole is outlined in lines of blue, black, and yellow beads. Shoulders are decorated with two parallel lines of green beads separated by one line of pink and blue beads in geometric designs. Seams sewn shut with black thread. |
Length | 77 cm |
Width | 64 cm |
Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Patrick Henry Ray, 1915 |
Other Number | G549 - Field No SF |
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