Case

Museum number:
2-7550
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020007550
Accession number:
Acc.23
Description:
Beaded leather case; white, green, and transparent rose beads in running diamond design; tin cones and 3 pendant strands of twisted buckskin at base. Made from leather, glass trade beads, twisted buckskin, and tin cones.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Philip Mills Jones
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Accession date:
December 15, 1901
Context of use:
Probably only for decoration - too narrow to be functional (fide David Finster, 1969). Probably for an awl.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 34 centimeters
Comment:
Added in pencil, "Assuredly part of 2-4914.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-7550, described as Beaded leather case; white, green, and transparent rose beads in running diamond design; tin cones and 3 pendant strands of twisted buckskin at base. Made from leather, glass trade beads, twisted buckskin, and tin cones.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-7550, described as Beaded leather case; white, green, and transparent rose beads in running diamond design; tin cones and 3 pendant strands of twisted buckskin at base. Made from leather, glass trade beads, twisted buckskin, and tin cones.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Case, accession number 2-7550, described as Beaded leather case; white, green, and transparent rose beads in running diamond design; tin cones and 3 pendant strands of twisted buckskin at base. Made from leather, glass trade beads, twisted buckskin, and tin cones.

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