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Hair-Pipe Necklace
The collection record classifies this work as jewelry. It is dated early 1900s. Recorded culture or place: Native North America, Plains, Nakota (Yankton or Yanktonai Sioux)?.
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- Museum title
- Hair-Pipe Necklace
- Date
- early 1900s
- Culture / origin
- Native North America, Plains, Nakota (Yankton or Yanktonai Sioux)?
- Materials and technique
- Cow-bone hair pipes, glass beads, brass beads, silk ribbon, metal coin, Native-tanned hide or rawhide stringing, vegetable-tanned hide separators
- Dimensions
- Overall: 236.2 cm (93 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1932.50
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Among the most recognizable of Plains accouterments of the later 1800s are women’s necklaces and men’s breastplates made of so-called hair pipes, tubular beads originally made of shell. These prestigious chest ornaments became popular with the introduction of sturdier cow-bone pipes, nearly all manufactured by a mill in New Jersey and traded widely on the Plains. Bone pipes were made into many kinds of ornaments, the most elaborate being the necklaces and breastplates, today indispensable as powwow regalia. (The term “hair pipe” may stem from Native Americans’ use of smaller tubular beads as hair ornaments.)
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