Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society (New Bedford, Massachusetts); acquired by MAI through an exchange with the Old Dartmouth Historical Society in 1919.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- Sioux
- Previous owner
- New Bedford Whaling Museum (Old Dartmouth Historical Society)
- Object Name
- Bridle
- Media/Materials
- Hide, glass bead/beads, hide thong/babiche
- Techniques
- Overlay beadwork
- Object Type
- Animal Tack and Animal Husbandry
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