Dress

Museum number:
2-5656
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3885 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.88
Description:
Dark red blanket; buckskin fringes on bottom, sleeves, sides, neck edged with black cloth; buckskin thongs and black wool pendants on body of dress; shoulder and neck area beaded in strips of green/white glass beads.
Donor:
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:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1903
Context of use:
Worn by woman.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 114 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5656, described as Dark red blanket; buckskin fringes on bottom, sleeves, sides, neck edged with black cloth; buckskin thongs and black wool pendants on body of dress; shoulder and neck area beaded in strips of green/white glass beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5656, described as Dark red blanket; buckskin fringes on bottom, sleeves, sides, neck edged with black cloth; buckskin thongs and black wool pendants on body of dress; shoulder and neck area beaded in strips of green/white glass beads.

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