Woven beadwork with repeated flower and leaf design using black, blue, rose and green seed beads on white ground; braided multicolored wool yarn fringe with pom-poms at each end; yarn broken on several pieces. Cotton thread, square weave.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
Northern Great Lakes, United States
Verbatim coll. place:
; Northern Great Lakes
Culture or time period:
Potawatomi
Collector:
Francis C. Hutchens
Collection date:
ca. 1900
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Belts (costume accessories)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 8 centimeters, length 48 centimeters, and length 80 centimeters
Comment:
References: "Native American Art at Philbrook", Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, 1980, p. 57.
Loans:
S1981-1982 #59: University of California, Davis/Pat Charley (April 14, 1982–June 21, 1982)