Yellow-stained and painted buckskin; heavy bands of multi-colored beading on sleeves and shoulders, geometric; ornamented with horsehair tassles with quilling, brass bells; fringed with scalps and weasel skins.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 28, 1901
Taxon:
Mustela
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Shirts (main garments)
Function:
5.3 Objects relating to the Secular and Quasi-religious Rites, Pageants, and Drama
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
With 5507 (moccasins) and 5508 (leggings), forms dancing ceremonial costume.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 83 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Loans:
S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965)