Ornament

Museum number:
2-5207
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020005207
Alternate number:
15 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Description:
Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and W. C. Farabee
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Teton Dakota
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Worn by men on ceremonial occasions.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Photo: 13/97. Worn by men on ceremonial occasions.
Loans:
S1979-1980 #32: Merritt College/Maurice Wolfe (January 14, 1980–May 6, 1980) and S1983-1984 #4: City of Palo Alto (August 22, 1983–January 11, 1984)
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 4 titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.Hearst Museum object 2 of 4 titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.Hearst Museum object 3 of 4 titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.Hearst Museum object 4 of 4 titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Ornament, accession number 2-5207, described as Breast ornament; 60 tubular bone beads strung between rawhide dividers; suspended from string of blue glass beads.

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