Ornament
- Museum number:
- 2-4845.1
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm210204845@2e1
- Alternate number:
- 30 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.14
- Description:
- dress hem ornament, tin conical tinkler,
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Great Plains, North America
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Great Plains
- Culture or time period:
- Kiowa
- Collector:
- Hugh Lenox Scott and Tarbouc
- Collection date:
- 1901
- Taxon:
- Cervus canadensis
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Ornaments (object genre)
- Function:
- 2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
- Context of use:
- Each elk provided only 2 of these kind of teeth; dress thus served as testimony to the hunting skill of woman's husband or father.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 117 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-