Necklace

Museum number:

2-5648

Permalink:

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Alternate number:

3877 (original number)

Accession number:

Acc.13 and Acc.88

Description:

11 sections of beads (alternating glass and bone); strung of cotton; leather dividers; yellow/black/crystal/light and dark blue glass beads; tubular bone beads.

Donor:

John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and 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:

Necklaces

Function:

2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements

Accession date:

1903 and August 1901

Context of use:

Worn by women (vertical stringing).

Department:

Native US and Canada (except California)

Dimensions:

length 127 centimeters

Comment:

Exhibited: UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971.

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