Necklace and Beaded Stick Barrette Set

Provenance

With Pack Saddle Gallery, Moran, WY, by 1991; sold to Peter and Elaine Liebesman, Rockville, MD, July 9, 1991 [gallery invoice; copy in curatorial object file] given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2024.

Necklace and Beaded Stick Barrette Set

Eastern Shoshone Tribe

Before 1991

Accession Number

274253

Medium

Micro-seed beads, thread, and brain-tanned hide on framework, with wood and velcro

Dimensions

Pendant: 12.7 × 8.9 × 1.3 cm (5 × 3 1/2 × 1/2 in.); Necklace overall: 42.2 × 8.9 × 1.3 cm (16 5/8 × 3 1/2 × 1/2 in.); Barrette: 8.9 × 11.5 × 2.6 cm (3 1/2 × 4 1/2 × 1 in.)

Classification

decorative arts

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Peter and Elaine Liebesman