Blanket strip

Museum number:
2-4868
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020004868
Alternate number:
53 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Beaded blanket strip. Original field catalog entry: "Sioux blanket stripe, old, very fine". Sewn to blanket and worn on formal or "dress" occasions.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Dakota
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1876-1897
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blankets (coverings)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Context of use:
Sewn to blanket and worn on formal or "dress" occasions.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 15 centimeters and 1 centimeters
Comment:
Colors of beads and design elements indicate piece is Middle Dakota. Published: Illustrated in "Seven Arrows" by Hyemeyohsts Storm. Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1972, page 128. "Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971".
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket strip, accession number 2-4868, described as Beaded blanket strip. Original field catalog entry: "Sioux blanket stripe, old, very fine". Sewn to blanket and worn on formal or "dress" occasions.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket strip, accession number 2-4868, described as Beaded blanket strip. Original field catalog entry: "Sioux blanket stripe, old, very fine". Sewn to blanket and worn on formal or "dress" occasions.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Blanket strip, accession number 2-4868, described as Beaded blanket strip. Original field catalog entry: "Sioux blanket stripe, old, very fine". Sewn to blanket and worn on formal or "dress" occasions.

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