Necklace

ClassificationsClothing and Adornments-neck ornaments

Culture Lakota

Datec. 1890

Made AtUnited States, North America

MediumPlains cow bone bead, commercial cow leather, glass bead and cowrie shell

Dimensions30 1/2 × 6 1/2 × 3/8 in. (77.5 × 16.5 × 1 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Irvine Foundation

Object number16214

DescriptionNecklace, woman's bone bead
Culture: Northern Plains
Identification: by M.R. Harrington, Southwest Museum, Los Angeles, Calif.
Seven rows of double-tapered bone beads separated from each other by rawhide strips. Lower row consists of 17 beads, 3-3/4" long. Six upper rows of 14 (fourteen) 3" beads each are separated into two groups of seven so as to form a collar. Tops are joined by five strings of lavender beads with two jet beads at each end of four strings and one end of the fifth. The other end of the fifth has four jet beads. A bottom fringe consists of 17 strings, each composed of 5 jet beads, one red bead and terminating with a money cowrie (monetaria moneta) shell bead. Two bone tubes are missing from the top row, one from each side.

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