Plateau Yakima Women's Dress
1850 - 1860s
Tanned mountain sheep with pony beads
Height 43" Width 54" with custom wall mount
Provenance: Santa Fe trade
Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kokin, Spirit of America Volume 3:6. (sold for $65,000)
Dr Robert Pamplin, Jr Oregon
A beautiful and important dress constructed out of native-tanned mountain sheep hides tailored in a two-piece hide construction. The yoke is decorated with hemp-sewn pony beads, which are arranged in wide lanes which contour with hide. The beadwork consists of red bands, which are flanked on either side by two black lines; they sit on white ground. Below the yoke are sequential thongs which are accented with ovular beads. In the central area, above the beadwork is a tail of a deer with clipped hair attached which typifies these early dresses.
For similar examples see one collected in 1846 by Rev. H. Spalding and currently in the Nez Perce National Monument Museum in Spalding , (Wright {ed}, Washington, 1991 and Ackerman {ed.} Oklahoma 1996).
1850 - 1860s
Tanned mountain sheep with pony beads
Height 43" Width 54" with custom wall mount
Provenance: Santa Fe trade
Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kokin, Spirit of America Volume 3:6. (sold for $65,000)
Dr Robert Pamplin, Jr Oregon
A beautiful and important dress constructed out of native-tanned mountain sheep hides tailored in a two-piece hide construction. The yoke is decorated with hemp-sewn pony beads, which are arranged in wide lanes which contour with hide. The beadwork consists of red bands, which are flanked on either side by two black lines; they sit on white ground. Below the yoke are sequential thongs which are accented with ovular beads. In the central area, above the beadwork is a tail of a deer with clipped hair attached which typifies these early dresses.
For similar examples see one collected in 1846 by Rev. H. Spalding and currently in the Nez Perce National Monument Museum in Spalding , (Wright {ed}, Washington, 1991 and Ackerman {ed.} Oklahoma 1996).
1850 - 1860s
Tanned mountain sheep with pony beads
Height 43" Width 54" with custom wall mount
Provenance: Santa Fe trade
Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kokin, Spirit of America Volume 3:6. (sold for $65,000)
Dr Robert Pamplin, Jr Oregon
A beautiful and important dress constructed out of native-tanned mountain sheep hides tailored in a two-piece hide construction. The yoke is decorated with hemp-sewn pony beads, which are arranged in wide lanes which contour with hide. The beadwork consists of red bands, which are flanked on either side by two black lines; they sit on white ground. Below the yoke are sequential thongs which are accented with ovular beads. In the central area, above the beadwork is a tail of a deer with clipped hair attached which typifies these early dresses.
For similar examples see one collected in 1846 by Rev. H. Spalding and currently in the Nez Perce National Monument Museum in Spalding , (Wright {ed}, Washington, 1991 and Ackerman {ed.} Oklahoma 1996).