Saddle

Museum number:
2-4833
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
18 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Rawhide over wood saddle tree; buckskin fringe and brass tacks over front and rear saddlehorns; parfleche strip stirrup straps with green and red designs; stirrups rawhide over wood.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Kiowa
Collector:
Hugh Lenox Scott
Collection date:
1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Saddles (seats)
Function:
1.4 Transportation
Context of use:
Woman's saddle. For riding horses.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 49.5 centimeters and width 48 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971.
Loans:
S1962-1963 #7: American Indian Council of the Bay Area (August 24, 1962–August 26, 1962), S1962-1963 #8: Four Winds Club, Oakland YWCA (September 13, 1962–September 17, 1962), and S1964-1965 #111: Oakland Public Museum (June 1, 1965–June 7, 1965)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Saddle, accession number 2-4833, described as Rawhide over wood saddle tree; buckskin fringe and brass tacks over front and rear saddlehorns; parfleche strip stirrup straps with green and red designs; stirrups rawhide over wood.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddle, accession number 2-4833, described as Rawhide over wood saddle tree; buckskin fringe and brass tacks over front and rear saddlehorns; parfleche strip stirrup straps with green and red designs; stirrups rawhide over wood.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Saddle, accession number 2-4833, described as Rawhide over wood saddle tree; buckskin fringe and brass tacks over front and rear saddlehorns; parfleche strip stirrup straps with green and red designs; stirrups rawhide over wood.

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