Collection: Warnock

Item Number: WC8708562

Category: Crupper

Region: Plains

Tribe: Crow

Period: 1875-1900 - ca. 1890-1910

Materials: Native tanned hide; rawhide; multi-colored glass seed beads; wool cloth; paint.

Description: Rawhide crupper (used on a horse to keep the saddle from sliding forward) with painted geometric designs in red, yellow, green and blue. Bead decoration at lower end. Red and blue cloth edging.

Dimensions: Length 43.25 inches 110 cm.

Provenance:

Lessard Collection- SD 576
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.

References:

Williston, Sale, Lot, November 13, 1981

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