Garters

Museum number:
2-5213a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
21AB (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.131 and Acc.52
Object count:
2
Description:
A pair. Loom beaded, multicolor beads on white ground; fringed with blue and red yarn.
Donor:
David Ives Bushnell Jr., G. B. Gordon, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and William Curtis Farabee
Collection place:
Central Plains, Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Central Plains
Culture or time period:
Umoⁿhoⁿ
Collector:
Francis La Flesche
Collection date:
1901-1902
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Garters
Accession date:
1904 and September 8, 1902
Context of use:
Worn by men; tied below the knee outside the leggings.
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 29 centimeters
Comment:
Exhibited: UCLMA, "Plains Indians", 1971. References: p. 351, "The Omaha Tribe", BAE 27; Fletcher & LaFlesche. Worn by men; tied below the knee outside the leggings.
Loans:
S1928-1929 #1: Los Angeles Natural History Museum (May 1929–August 1945) and S1973-1974 #65: Oakland Museum of California (March 8, 1974–April 24, 1974)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Garters, accession number 2-5213a,b, described as A pair. Loom beaded, multicolor beads on white ground; fringed with blue and red yarn.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Garters, accession number 2-5213a,b, described as A pair. Loom beaded, multicolor beads on white ground; fringed with blue and red yarn.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Garters, accession number 2-5213a,b, described as A pair. Loom beaded, multicolor beads on white ground; fringed with blue and red yarn.

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