Tribal Art & Antiquities - 22nd September 2020
Lot 187
A Plateau dress buckskin and coloured glass beads
Estimate £1,500 - £2,000 | Hammer £1600
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Description
A Plateau dress
buckskin and coloured glass beads, the shoulders with a later applied Nez Perce beaded geometric panel on a striped cloth, the sides and base with tassels and the body with beaded tassels, circa 1910 - 20,
124cm long, 139cm wide.
Provenance
Collected in Kamiah on the Nez Perce Reservation in 1968.
Curtright and Son, Tacona, Washington, who states the dress originally came from a family on the Colville Reservation and the beaded yoke added on the Nez Perce Reservation.
Michael G. Johnson Collection, from the above May 2011