Scalp

Museum number:
2-4874
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
59 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.14
Description:
Of a woman from Texas. Ornamented. Scalp sewn to buckskin trimmed with alternating green and white beaded bands. Pendant hair wrapped in red wool cloth.
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
Context of use:
Burial.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 72 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA Plains Indians, 1971.
Loans:
S1964-1965 #79: Science Center (Diablo Valley College) (March 18, 1965–August 6, 1965)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scalp, accession number 2-4874, described as Of a woman from Texas. Ornamented. Scalp sewn to buckskin trimmed with alternating green and white beaded bands. Pendant hair wrapped in red wool cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scalp, accession number 2-4874, described as Of a woman from Texas. Ornamented. Scalp sewn to buckskin trimmed with alternating green and white beaded bands. Pendant hair wrapped in red wool cloth.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Scalp, accession number 2-4874, described as Of a woman from Texas. Ornamented. Scalp sewn to buckskin trimmed with alternating green and white beaded bands. Pendant hair wrapped in red wool cloth.

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