gorget
- Museum number
- Am1949,06.22
- Description
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Gorget; made of glass beadwork; gorget consisting of large blue, white and black beads strung between leather thongs.
- Production date
- 1896 (before)
- Dimensions
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Height: 43 centimetres
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Width: 35 centimetres
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Depth: 1 centimetres
- 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
- Condition
- Glass disease evident on some blue beads.
- Acquisition date
- 1949
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1949,06.22
