Blue, white, and black glass beads; 30 bone pipe beads; brass beads; strung with cloth. Leather dividers. Made from 80 bone beads; buckskin thongs and fringe; leather frame; brass beads; abalone and clam shells; beaded and quilled pendants with metal tinklers and red fluff-type feathers; 29 U.S. "Indian head" pennies.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 96 centimeters, width 11 centimeters, and length 8 centimeters
Comment:
References: Ewers, John C. "Hair Pipes in Plains Indian Adornment - A study in Indian & White Ingenuity". Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164 (Anthropological Papers, No. 50).