Hair-Pipe Necklace
early 1900s
Maker Unknown
Art of the Americas
Hair-Pipe Necklace, early 1900s. Native North America, Plains, Nakota (Yankton or Yanktonai Sioux)?. Cow-bone hair pipes, glass beads, brass beads, silk ribbon, metal coin, Native-tanned hide or rawhide stringing, vegetable-tanned hide separators; overall: 236.2 cm (93 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1932.50 Among the most spectacular of Plains ornaments are men’s breastplates and women’s necklaces made of cylindrical beads.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Jewelry
- Formatted Medium
- Cow-bone hair pipes, glass beads, brass beads, silk ribbon, metal coin, Native-tanned hide or rawhide stringing, vegetable-tanned hide separators
- Medium
- cow-bone, hair, pipes, glass, beads, brass, silk, ribbon, metal, coin, native-tanned, hide, rawhide, stringing, vegetable-tanned, separators
- Dimensions
- Overall: 236.2 cm (93 in.)
- Departments
- Art of the Americas
- Accession Number
- 1932.50
- Credit Line
- Educational Purchase Fund
- Exhibitions
- Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation, Gallery 231 - Native North American Textile Rotation, Native North America (Native North America rotation)
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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