Ornament

Museum number:
2-5632
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005632
Alternate number:
3861 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Neck ornament; strings of yellow/blue/pink beads wrapped around cloth core; woven wire att. pendant with white bead loops; ermine tails and human hair fringe.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Piegan
Collector:
J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
1903
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
5.2 Magic: Objects Associated with Practices reflecting confidence in the ability to manipulate supernatural agencies
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
Original entry: "ornamental amulet
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 60 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5632, described as Neck ornament; strings of yellow/blue/pink beads wrapped around cloth core; woven wire att. pendant with white bead loops; ermine tails and human hair fringe.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5632, described as Neck ornament; strings of yellow/blue/pink beads wrapped around cloth core; woven wire att. pendant with white bead loops; ermine tails and human hair fringe.

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