Bracelet

Museum number:
2-65885
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.3709
Description:
Bangle bracelet, very narrow in center, widening at one end into feather-like design; silver-colored metal.
Donor:
George Bangle and Mrs. George Bangle
Collection place:
Ouray Agency, Uintah County, Utah
Verbatim coll. place:
Utah; Ouray Agency
Culture or time period:
Mouache Ute, Navajo, and Ute
Collector:
John McAndrews
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bracelets (jewelry)
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 6.4 centimeters, width 6.5 centimeters, length 6.5 centimeters, length 5.4 centimeters, and width 5.4 centimeters
Comment:
Cost $1.00. In "The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths" (John Adair) in interviews with his informant Grey Moustache, Adair notes the following: "bracelets and rings of a yellowish color" were worn by the Utes and Southern Plains tribes who obtained the metals from the Indian traders to whom they sold hides"(p. 11); also see p. 6 "Some of the silver that the Navajo made they traded to the Utes" And Chee Dodge states that while at Ft. Sumner (1864-68) the Navajo had very little silver but lots of copper and brass which was pounded up into bracelets" (p. 5). References: "Saponero and Colorow were chiefs in McAndrew''s time.
Loans:
S1999-2000 #13: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (June 13, 2000–September 10, 2001)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bracelet, accession number 2-65885, described as Bangle bracelet, very narrow in center, widening at one end into feather-like design; silver-colored metal.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bracelet, accession number 2-65885, described as Bangle bracelet, very narrow in center, widening at one end into feather-like design; silver-colored metal.

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