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Given to the consignor's father in the 1880s by the Umatilla Indians at Pendleton, Oregon.
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AN UMATILLA BANDOLEER
Consisting of a cloth backed shoulder strap with pink, black, red, yellow and two shades of blue beads in leaf, rosette and bud vine patterns on a white beaded ground, the square pocket patch with asymmetrical floral pattern in similar colored beads on a white ground with red wool tassels at bottom, 33in. (83.8cm.) long without attachments
Consisting of a cloth backed shoulder strap with pink, black, red, yellow and two shades of blue beads in leaf, rosette and bud vine patterns on a white beaded ground, the square pocket patch with asymmetrical floral pattern in similar colored beads on a white ground with red wool tassels at bottom, 33in. (83.8cm.) long without attachments