Object Details
- Collection History
- Collection history unknown; formerly in the collection of Margaret Bacon Gilbert (Mrs. Clinton Gilbert, 1866-1933); donated to MAI by Mrs. Gilbert in 1926.
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- Data Source
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Culture/People
- probably Niitsitapii (Blackfoot/Blackfeet) (attributed); possibly collected from the Oglala Lakota (Oglala Sioux)
- Previous owner
- Margaret Bacon Gilbert (Margaret Gray Bacon/Mrs. Clinton Gilbert), Non-Indian, 1866-1933
- Donor
- Margaret Bacon Gilbert (Margaret Gray Bacon/Mrs. Clinton Gilbert), Non-Indian, 1866-1933
- Object Name
- Breastplate
- Media/Materials
- Bone beads, shell/shells, glass bead/beads, commercially tanned leather, hide thong/babiche, silk ribbon
- Techniques
- Strung
- Object Type
- Adornment/Jewelry
