arm-band
- Museum number
- Am1949,06.13.a-b
- Description
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Armband (pair); made of glass; pair of beadwork armbands on cotton base decorated with white, red and blue geometrical pattern.
- Production date
- 1880s (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 7 centimetres (a)
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Height: 6.50 centimetres (b)
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Width: 14 centimetres (a)
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Width: 13.50 centimetres (b)
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Depth: 1.50 centimetres (a)
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Depth: 2 centimetres (b)
- Curator's comments
- Register 1949:
Plains Indian, Canada.
Collected from Indians of Canada, mostly from Saskatchewan and Manitoba by the late James A. Head (donor's uncle) between 1881 and 1896.
Part at the time of Reid's Rebellion, 1884.
Mr Head lived near an old Siuox trail at "Rapid City" Manitoba.
See letter from H.T. Mann, 21/7/49.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,06.13.a-b