Breast Plate
Frontlet
45-15-567
From: Plains (Culture Area)
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 45-15-567 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Plains Indian |
| Provenience | Plains (Culture Area) |
| Culture Area | Great Plains Culture Area |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Bone | Shell | Porcelain | Rawhide | Metal |
| Description | Woman's shirt. 4 tiers of vertical bone pipes, between white shell disc and blue porcelain beads. The pipes are divided into 2 groups of 3 held by rawhide strips but all held at lower end by one strip to which are attached 4 tinkling thimbles, buckskin ties. |
| Length | 56 cm |
| Width | 6.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Mrs. Owen Stephens, 1945 |
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