A Plateau vest possibly Flathead canvas

A Plateau vest

possibly Flathead

canvas, cloth and coloured glass beads with floral designs to the front panels and with four brass American eagle buttons, circa 1900,

59cm long.

Provenance

Private Collection, Phoenix, Arizona, whose family were reputedly from the Flathead Reservation, Montana.

Curtright and Son, Tacoma, Washington.

Michael G. Johnson Collection, from the above in 2000.