Bow Guard

CultureApache

Date1875

MediumCommercial and native leather, copper, and pigment

DimensionsOverall: 2 3/4 × 14 1/4 × 8 5/8 inches (6.99 × 36.2 × 21.91 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Donald D. Jones

Object number2001.3.58

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Not on view

Collections

North American Indian Art

Terms

DescriptionA cylindrical piece of leather sewn together with rawhide. It is decorated with 24, 5/8" diameter copper allow buttons arranged in three rows of eight buttons each. The buttons are attached with rawhide through loops on the back of the buttons. There is a rawhide fringe sewn with rawhide to the leather cylinder.

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