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Collection: Warnock
Item Number: WC8808029
Category: Dress
Region: Plains
Tribe: Blackfoot
Period: 1825-1850
Materials: Native tanned deerskin; white and blue glass pony beads; sinew sewn; traces of red wool cloth.
Description: Soft tanned hide dress decorated with pony beads around the collar and one lane running across the chest and sleeves. Sides and bottom are ornamented with wide fringe. Fixed to the dress is a small blue collector's stamp with the number 68
Dimensions: Length: 61 inches 155 cm.
Provenance:
From a private museum in Switzerland founded in the 1830s or 1840s
Alexander Gallery
Epic Fine Arts Co./Masco Corp.
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