Dress

Museum number:
2-5504
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3495 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.13
Description:
Buckskin; fringed; beaded bands across bodice; flannel patches with beadwork at hem and center; brass bells; large glass beads at bodice; ermine tails on sleeve area.
Donor:
John Preston Stanley, Philip Mills Jones, and Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Blackfoot Reservation, Canada
Verbatim coll. place:
Canada; Blackfoot Reservation
Culture or time period:
Blackfoot of Canada
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
August 28, 1901
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
August 1901
Context of use:
For dress-up occasions for women.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
129 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: "UCLMA, Plains Indians, 1971
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5504, described as Buckskin; fringed; beaded bands across bodice; flannel patches with beadwork at hem and center; brass bells; large glass beads at bodice; ermine tails on sleeve area.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-5504, described as Buckskin; fringed; beaded bands across bodice; flannel patches with beadwork at hem and center; brass bells; large glass beads at bodice; ermine tails on sleeve area.

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