Shirt

Museum number:
2-59149
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3239
Description:
Buckskin; strips of multi-colored glass "seed" beads with blue background; dark blue and white bead "thunderbird" central motif front and back; scalplocks held with yarn (some detached).
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:
Shirts (main garments)
Function:
3.1 Status Objects and Insignia of Office
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 1 meters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Shirt, accession number 2-59149, described as Buckskin; strips of multi-colored glass "seed" beads with blue background; dark blue and white bead "thunderbird" central motif front and back; scalplocks held with yarn (some detached).

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