Leather foundation covered with beadwork; glass seed beads in green, yellow and red on white in geometric design curving from top front to back, U.S. flag design on each side, all white ground.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Northern Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
Northern Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Francis C. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bonnets (hats)
Function:
6.1 Cradles and Swaddling
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 6.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Hail, Barbara A. Hau, Kola, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, p. 59. Native American Art at Philbrook, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1980, p. 68 #333.