Saddle

Museum number:
2-5499a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21025499a@2cb
Alternate number:
3490 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13
Description:
(a) Saddle; tanned leather; metal fittings, buckskin fringe; studded brass pommels; brass rivets; simple tooling on leather flaps. (b) Fragment of cloth (came with saddle); wool; diagonal twill/basket weave.
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:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 28, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddles (seats)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
Woman's saddle.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(a)— length 43 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1961-1962 #6: American Association of University Women, Berkeley Branch (July 28, 1961–July 31, 1961)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddle, accession number 2-5499a,b, described as (a) Saddle; tanned leather; metal fittings, buckskin fringe; studded brass pommels; brass rivets; simple tooling on leather flaps. (b) Fragment of cloth (came with saddle); wool; diagonal twill/basket weave.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddle, accession number 2-5499a,b, described as (a) Saddle; tanned leather; metal fittings, buckskin fringe; studded brass pommels; brass rivets; simple tooling on leather flaps. (b) Fragment of cloth (came with saddle); wool; diagonal twill/basket weave.

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