Parfleche

Museum number:

2-5522

Permalink:

ark:/21549/hm21020005522

Alternate number:

3587 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.13 and Acc.88

Description:

Rawhide. Envelope style, fringed on sides. Painted geometric deisng in blue/yellow/orange/black on one side.

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

Function:

1.5 Household

Accession date:

1903 and August 1901

Context of use:

For storage and carrying on horseback food, clothes, etc.

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

height 26 centimeters

Comment:

Context of use: See Acc. envelope 88 for tag: "No 16

Loans:

S1982-1983 #43: SFO Museum (May 24, 1983–December 7, 1983)

Legacy documentation: