Garters or armbands

Museum number:
2-65845a,b
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210265845a@2cb
Accession number:
Acc.3675
Description:
Pair. Beaded on cotton thread with plaited wool yarn fringe. Varicolored geometric pattern on light blue background. Blue and red yarn fringe at one end attached to garter by means of a buckskin strip sewn to garter. Fringe at other end is blue yarn mixed with thread used in garter. On (a) part of red and blue fringe is missing.
Donor:
Frederick V. Kellogg Jr.
Collection place:
McAlester, Pittsburg, Oklahoma
Verbatim coll. place:
Oklahoma; Pittsburg; McAlester
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Frederick V. Kellogg Sr.
Collection date:
late 1800 - 1899
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Garters and Plaited weaving
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 85 centimeters, 26 centimeters, and length 6.5 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Garters or armbands, accession number 2-65845a,b, described as Pair. Beaded on cotton thread with plaited wool yarn fringe. Varicolored geometric pattern on light blue background. Blue and red yarn fringe at one end attached to garter by means of a buckskin strip sewn to garter. Fringe at other end is blue yarn mixed with thread used in garter. On (a) part of red and blue fringe is missing.

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