Beads
- Museum number:
- 2-51901
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020051901
- Alternate number:
- 2-5369 to 2-5436 (previous museum number (recataloged from)) and 3359 - 3427 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.13
- Object count:
- 84
- Description:
- Tubular bone beads for breast ornamentation.
- 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:
- J. Disbury and Philip Mills Jones
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Beads (pierced objects)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Accession date:
- August 1901
- Context of use:
- Used to make breast ornaments, etc.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 9 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-