Beaded collar/cape; multiple strands of tiny blue and white glass beads tied together with a soiled cotton shoe-lace.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Collars (neckwear)
Function:
2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Worn by little girl.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
circumference 72 centimeters and height 9.5 centimeters
Comment:
Photo: Plate 5 A "Holding bead necklace for sale to tourists" Kroebers Handbook "Indians of California" p. 740. References: A pictorial History of the American Indian/Lafarge 1956 Photo p. 114, "Yuma shoulder cloak of beads, for women's wear" Univ. Arizona, Crown Pub. NYC.
Loans:
S1970-1971 #48: Newport Harbor Art Museum (February 22, 1971–July 8, 1971), S1980-1981 #68: US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Indian Programs (May 8, 1981–May 8, 1981), and S1981-1982 #67: US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Indian Programs (June 9, 1982–June 9, 1982)