Beaded band

Titles: Beaded band (Supplied title)

Description: This loom-woven beaded band with geometric designs uses glass seed beads and has leather fringe sewn on each side. Predominant bead colors are blue, green white and red on translucent bead background. 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: 1973

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

• 22 inches length
• 1 3/8 inches width
• 6 inches length (fringe length)

Subjects

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