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A SIOUX MAN'S BEADED HIDE PICTORIAL VEST
of usual form, sinew sewn and lane-stitched in white-heart red, yellow, and two shades of blue beads on a white beaded ground, decorated on the front with a pair of mounted warriors, wearing eagle feather bonnets and carrying lances, surmounted by a pair of big horn sheep, the reverse, with similar warriors, surmounted by a pair of buffalo, lined with a floral cotton cloth, hide ties
Length: 22 in. (56 cm.)
of usual form, sinew sewn and lane-stitched in white-heart red, yellow, and two shades of blue beads on a white beaded ground, decorated on the front with a pair of mounted warriors, wearing eagle feather bonnets and carrying lances, surmounted by a pair of big horn sheep, the reverse, with similar warriors, surmounted by a pair of buffalo, lined with a floral cotton cloth, hide ties
Length: 22 in. (56 cm.)
Literature
Illustrated in Die Prarieindianer Nordamerikas 1840 - 1890, plate 19.
Exhibited
Amerika Haus Berlin, Mar. 1 - 31, 1971