1992.22.1

Collection type

Object

Description

Skin shirt decorated with panels of beadwork on front and back and long bands of beadwork over shoulders and on sleeves.

Long description

Skin shirt decorated with panels of beadwork on front and back and long bands of beadwork over shoulders and on sleeves. Beaded panels and bands worked in lane stitch on skin. Beadwork in light and dark blue, white, red, translucent green, orange, translucent and opaque yellow. Beaded areas are edged with ermine tails; there are also two ?eagle feathers on each sleeve. The garment is fastened by means of thongs under the arms and down the sides. The neck is edged with red cloth. The lower edge of the garment is fringed and the bottoms of the sleeves are turned up and fringed.

Geographical reference

United States of America

Northern America > North America > United States of America

Cultural groups

Oglala

Person

Maker Mrs Bessie Black Horn

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Kathleen Turvey

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1926

Date collected

By 1926

Acquisition information

Donated: 28/08/1992

Materials and processes

Material Bird Feather, Material Animal Fur Skin, Material Bead, Material Textile, Material Animal Sinew, Process Beadwork, Process Woven

Dimensions

Width 1660 mm, Length 1100 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1992.22.1

Research and responses

The band of Ogala Sioux attended Bertram Mills Circus. The circus opened in London at Olympia on Monday 21 December 1925 and ended on Saturday 23 January 1926. According to Turvey the band left for Germany on 24 January 1926. [MJD 18/12/2014]

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