Parfleche

Museum number:
2-5232
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005232
Alternate number:
41 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Unfinished parfleche. Made of rawhide, geometric design painted in blue, red, yellow pigment.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Southern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Southern Plains
Culture or time period:
Ponca
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Used for packing provisions or articles of clothing.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 168 centimeters, width 107 centimeters, 1 centimeters, and 1 centimeters
Comment:
Materials and techniques: "Style of folding & decoration Omaha and Ponca". Not folded, was rolled, now flat. Photo: yes. References: Denver Art Museum Leaflet #77-78 and Morrow, Mabel "Indian Rawhide - An American Folk Art". Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975. Used for packing provisions or articles of clothing.
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Parfleche, accession number 2-5232, described as Unfinished parfleche. Made of rawhide, geometric design painted in blue, red, yellow pigment.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parfleche, accession number 2-5232, described as Unfinished parfleche. Made of rawhide, geometric design painted in blue, red, yellow pigment.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parfleche, accession number 2-5232, described as Unfinished parfleche. Made of rawhide, geometric design painted in blue, red, yellow pigment.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Parfleche, accession number 2-5232, described as Unfinished parfleche. Made of rawhide, geometric design painted in blue, red, yellow pigment.

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