Native American Indian artifact from the Warnock collection

Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708428

Category: Horse Collar

Region: Plains

Tribe: Crow

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1890

Materials: Native tanned hide, red wool trade cloth; multi-colored glass seed beads; brass bells.

Description: Decorative horse collar or martingale consisting of two straps and a central panel. The major design element on both straps and panel is a triangle in various colors and outlined with a row of white beads. Red wool cloth is used for background on the straps.

Dimensions: Length 31 inches 78.8 cm; Width 14 inches 35.6 cm.

Provenance:

Will Channing, 1980 Lessard Collection- SD 429 Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.