Double row of blue and red glass beads, brass beads, bone pipe beads on rawhide thong; cow - tail attached. Rawhide thong broken at attachment.
Donor:
Machinery Credit Corporation
Collection place:
Great Plains, North America
Verbatim coll. place:
; Great Plains
Culture or time period:
Plains and Prairie tribes
Collector:
Ralph K. Davies
Collection date:
Before 1971
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Necklaces
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Native US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
length 63 centimeters
Comment:
References: Ewers, John C. "Hair Pipe in Plains Indian Adornment - A Study in Indian & White Ingenuity". Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 164 (Anthropological Papers, No. 50).