Hide, glass bead/beads, brass tacks/bosses, metal buckle, hide thong/babiche
Techniques:
Lazy/lane stitch beadwork , studded, perforated
Dimensions:
93 x 16 cm
Object Type:
Clothing/Garments: Accessories
Place:
Dulce, Jicarilla Apache Reservation; Rio Arriba County; New Mexico; USA
Date created:
1900-1911
Collection History:
Collected before 1911 by Ralph Aspaas (1877-1939), who worked as an allotment agent for the Jicarilla Apache tribe from about 1905 to 1911 and his wife Allie Aspaas (1881-1959), who worked in an Indian School at Dulce, New Mexico; inherited by their son Carl Henry Aspaas (1908-1975) and then by Carl Aspaas' daughters, Dr. Helen Ruth Aspaas and Carla Marie Aspaas Foland; donated to NMAI by Dr. Helen Ruth Aspaas and Carla Marie Aspaas Foland in 2003.
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