Loom-woven beaded band with yarn fringe

Titles: Loom-woven beaded band with yarn fringe (Supplied title)

Description: Large loom-woven beaded band with multicolored glass seed beads in geometric design. Predominant bead colors are pink, black, white, red, orange, yellow and green on turquoise bead background. Each end has yarn fringe in yellow, turquoise, purple and red. Possibly Ojibwe or Dakota.

Dates

• Approximately 1860 - Approximately 1901 (Date range based on time Bishop Whipple spent in Minnesota working for various government commissions for Indian Affairs) (Creation)

Creation

• collected by: Whipple, Henry Benjamin

Identifiers

• Accession Number: 1845

Credit: Minnesota Historical Society Collections, Gift of the Sibley House Association of the Minnesota Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Holding Type: 3D Objects

Quantity: 1 item

Format

• Content Category: artifacts

Measurements

• 27 1/8 inches length
• 4 1/4 inches width
• 28 inches length (fringe length)

Subjects

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