Two beaded arm or leg bands, c. 1890

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Two beaded arm or leg bands, c. 1890
Two beaded arm or leg bands, c. 1890
Artifact/Collection Number: 
AC 2002.2_7
Location: 
Shelf 32 Box 4

Two trapezoidal shaped beaded leather arm or leg bands believed to be from the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall Reservation in Idaho. The bands are approximately 11” by 6.5” and are intricately and identically decorated with light blue, red, yellow, green, white, and dark blue beads and have leather five leather strings on each short end. These objects were owned by Zatae Longsdorff, class of 1887.

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Gift of Enid Straw, 1968 and 1975
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