2 rows of 41 bone pipe beads each (1 bead detached); poor condition; cloth ties; framed in leather. Made from 82 bone pipe beads; strung on cloth; attached to a leather frame. Made from 55 bone beads; strung on cord; leather dividers; 6 bones carved to to resemble teeth attached with buckskin thongs at bottom.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Ornaments (object genre)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Context of use:
Breast ornament.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 10 centimeters, length 46.5 centimeters, and width 21.5 centimeters
Comment:
References: Ewers, John C. "Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment - A study in Indian & White Ingenuity". Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164 (Anthropological Papers, No. 50).