Bead collar or cape; red, white, and blue. Intricate geometric pattern of glass beads. Bottom decorated with many single strands of tiny solid glass beads with large glass bead at end.
Donor:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection place:
Needles, San Bernardino County, California
Verbatim coll. place:
California; San Bernardino; Needles
Culture or time period:
Mohave
Collector:
Alfred L. Kroeber
Collection date:
February 1908
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Collars (neckwear)
Function:
2.3 Special Ornaments, Garb, and Finery Worn to Battle by Warrior (excluding status insignia)
Accession date:
1908
Context of use:
Worn by women.
Department:
Native California (archaeology and ethnology)
Dimensions:
width 62 centimeters
Comment:
ref. Lafarge - A pictorial History of the American Indians 1956 Photo: p. 114 "Yuma shoulder-cloak of beads, for women's wear" Univ. of Arizona Kroebers Handbook of Ind. of Ca. p. 470 "Venetian beads of blue and white" Mohave woman