Ornament

Museum number:
2-5574
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005574
Alternate number:
3740 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Cloth. Trapezoidal shape; wool facing; beaded geometric design in white/bronze.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Ornament for clothes; horse trappings. "Size and ornamentation suggests trapesoidal ornament as decoration for a back rest - cf. 2-5544. (D. Lazzari, 1978)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
height 32 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5574, described as Cloth. Trapezoidal shape; wool facing; beaded geometric design in white/bronze.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5574, described as Cloth. Trapezoidal shape; wool facing; beaded geometric design in white/bronze.

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