Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708511

Category: Shirt

Region: Plains

Tribe: Oto

Period: 1875-1900

Materials: Navy blue wool trade cloth; silk ribbon; Cotton cloth; multi-colored glass seed beads; thread sewn.

Description: Sleeveless pullover wool cloth shirt. Shirt is decorated with curvilinear beadwork in varoius colors. Beaded patterns are repetitive - two on front, two on back. Beadwork has been salvaged from another garment.

Dimensions: Length 25.5 inches 64.8 cm.

Provenance:

Jonathon Holstein
Lessard Collection- SD 521
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Sotheby's Auction Catalogue, Sotheby's, New York, Sale, Lot 286, April 25, 1981

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