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Beaded and painted leather moccasin with geometric designs and fringe
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Beaded and painted leather moccasin with geometric designs and fringe
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Hairpipe breastplate with a red bike reflector / Native American; Plains

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A hairpipe bead breastplate decorated with glass beads, eight pennies (four are “Indian heads”), and a red bike reflector. All are held together on leather strips.

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Title(s): 
Hairpipe breastplate with a red bike reflector
Culture: 
Native American; Plains
Date: 
20th century
Period: 
Historic
Place: 
Great Plains, United States of America
Materials/Techniques: 
bone, copper, iron, thread (rayon or cotton), glass, semi-tanned hide, commercially tanned leather, pigment
Classification: 
Ethnographic Objects
Object Type: 
Breastplate
Accession No: 
84.172
Previous Number(s): 
8426.172; 40883
Department: 
Anthropology
Collection: 
Kravis Discovery Center
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