A PLAINS QUILLED HIDE HORSE HEADSTALL

YANKTON SIOUX

細節

A PLAINS QUILLED HIDE HORSE HEADSTALL
YANKTON SIOUX
Composed of four elongated strips, one with rosettes at each end and two with a rosette at one end, constructed of Indian tanned hide, sinew sewn with natural and red and blue dyed porcupine quillwork, white glass seed beads and trimmed with red silk, decorated with interlocking triangular motifs
Ranging in size from: 14¾ to 10¼in. (37.5 to 26cm.) long

來源

Collected by Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, 1859, and gifted to the ancestors of the current owners.

出版

Peterson, 1993, p. 59

展覽

Washington State University, Sacred Encounters, Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West, 1993

拍品專文

"Horses became so important to the Plateau peoples that women made special ornaments for them. The making of [this headstall] required great knowledge of hide tanning and porcupine quillwork. Women decorated saddle blankets and made fancy martingales, cruppers, and headstalls for their horses," (Peterson, 1993, p. 59).

Elaborately decorated headstalls were one of the most popular articles produced by the Missouri River Metis. Although apparently acquired in the 1850s, the porcupine quillwork of this example is in the style that was popular some ten years earlier.

Ted Brasser March 14, 2000