Necklace

Museum number:
2-59189
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Accession number:
Acc.3239
Description:
55 bone pipe beads, with red glass and brass beads and blue and yellow faceted glass beads. Strung on cord with leather dividers. 6 bones carved to resemble teeth attached with buckskin thongs to bottom.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 74 centimeters, width 10 centimeters, and length 12 centimeters
Comment:
References: Ewers, John C. "Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment - A study in Indian & White Ingenuity". Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164 (Anthropological Papers, No. 50).
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Necklace, accession number 2-59189, described as 55 bone pipe beads, with red glass and brass beads and blue and yellow faceted glass beads. Strung on cord with leather dividers. 6 bones carved to resemble teeth attached with buckskin thongs to bottom.

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