Ornament

Museum number:
2-5537
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005537
Alternate number:
3603 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13 and Acc.88
Description:
Breast ornament, 11 strands of strings of blue/black beads wrapped around cloth core; hide suspenders and ties.
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:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1903 and August 1901
Context of use:
to go with 2-5534" 2-5534-37 should all go together.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5537, described as Breast ornament, 11 strands of strings of blue/black beads wrapped around cloth core; hide suspenders and ties.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5537, described as Breast ornament, 11 strands of strings of blue/black beads wrapped around cloth core; hide suspenders and ties.

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