Lakota (Sioux)
Pair of Quilled Anklets
Lakota (Western Sioux), 1879
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Lakota (Sioux)
Pair of Quilled Anklets
Lakota (Western Sioux), 1879
Physical Qualities
Cloth, leather, dyed quills (red, blue, yellow), metal, feathers, beaver fur, glass seed beads, string, thread, a. 15 3/8 × 8 11/16 in. (39 × 22 cm.) w/ feathers; 27 9/16 × 8 11/16 in. (70 × 22 cm.) w/ ties
b. 15 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (40 × 22 cm.) w/ feathers; 29 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (75 × 22 cm.) w/ ties
Credit Line
Gift of Dena S. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number
1992.277a-b
Each: made of leather strips wrapped in quills, separated by seed beads, on red cloth back. Quilling has red ground, 3 nested blue and yellow rectangles. 47 tin cones with red feathers trim bottom. Beaver fur trims top.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1992; Dena S. Katzenberg
