Hair braids

Museum number:
2-62045
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Accession number:
Acc.3450
Description:
Two small front braids tied together at tops. Decorated with brass beads (strung on to braids), red feathers and thin strips of skin with fur intact.
Donor:
Edith Hamlin Dixon
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada and Blackfoot of US
Collector:
Maynard Dixon
Collection date:
Before 1946
Object type:
ethnography
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Context of use:
Worn at the front of one's hair.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 34 centimeters
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hair braids, accession number 2-62045, described as Two small front braids tied together at tops. Decorated with brass beads (strung on to braids), red feathers and thin strips of skin with fur intact.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Hair braids, accession number 2-62045, described as Two small front braids tied together at tops. Decorated with brass beads (strung on to braids), red feathers and thin strips of skin with fur intact.

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