Armbands

Museum number:
2-66150a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210266150a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3445
Description:
Loom beaded strips, blue and red glass seed beads in eight point star design on white background. Strips are sewn with cotton thread to white cotton cloth, wore mesh between cloth and beaded strips. (a) stitching broken. (b) beaded edging partly gone.
Donor:
Betty Ann Gruberg
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
George M. Firestone
Collection date:
1927-1933
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Armbands
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
(b)— width 5 centimeters, (a)— width 5.5 centimeters, (a)— length 31.5 centimeters, and (b)— length 31.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Armbands, accession number 2-66150a,b, described as Loom beaded strips, blue and red glass seed beads in eight point star design on white background. Strips are sewn with cotton thread to white cotton cloth, wore mesh between cloth and beaded strips. (a) stitching broken. (b) beaded edging partly gone.

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