Dress
63-3-1
Location: On Display in the Native American Voices
From: United States of America | South Dakota
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 63-3-1 |
| Current Location | Native American Voices - On Display |
| Culture | Sioux |
| Provenience | United States of America | South Dakota |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Deerskin | Bead | Tin |
| Description | Women's deerskin dress; solidly beaded yolk back and front: lazy stitch with seed beads;light blue beads predominate with striped band along shoulders and neck, and again 5cm from edge of beading in red, translucent green, yellow and dark blue. Two major design elements repeated right and left, back and front; lower edge has 3 red stripe motif at 4 points and circular pattern at center, back and front; Bottom has beaded border of triangles with striped pattern at each side; jinglers at bottom; fringe on sleeves and bottom. |
| Length | 140 cm |
| Width | 180 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of Mrs. B. A. Greenspan, 1963 |
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