Strap
- Museum number:
- 2-5251a,b
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21025251a@2cb
- Alternate number:
- 64 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.131 and Acc.52
- Description:
- Made of buffalo hide; painted on one side with geometric designs in red/green/yellow. Thong ties.
- Donor:
- David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
- Collection place:
- Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- ; Central Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Umoⁿhoⁿ
- Collector:
- Francis La Flesche
- Collection date:
- 1901-1902
- Taxon:
- Bison bison
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Accession date:
- 1904 and September 8, 1902
- Context of use:
- Burden strap. For transportation of loads such as wood.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 56 centimeters
- Comment:
- References: P. 339-40, fig. 69, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27; Fletcher & LaFlesche. Burden strap. For transportation of loads such as wood.
- Images:
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- Legacy documentation:
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