Child's Hide and Beaded Dress (with Coolidge / Dawes Campaign Thimbles)

Datecirca 1925

Mediumhide, glass beads, trade cloth, brass, aluminum thimbles

Dimensionsflat: 21 × 18 in. (53.3 × 45.7 cm)

ClassificationsNATIVE AMERICAN

Credit LineGift of Robert F. Rockwell III

Object number91.84.a-b F

DescriptionChild's dress; Style characteristic of tribes of Plains; (a) yoke beaded in front and back (red, blue, gold, green, white and pink) and decorated with aluminum thimbles reading "Coolidge/Dawes"; trade cloth; brass bells; (b) awl case suspended from front

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