Lariat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 10 Feb 1913
name: label: Collector
content: Francis La Flesche
label: Donor Name
content: Francis La Flesche
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Braided of buffalo-hair; ends decorated with red flannel and beads. Lariat is one with which the horse is led on which the bride rides to her intended husband. It is part of the bridal equipment used in the ceremonial of wedding and is many years old."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 174 in Bailey, Garrick A., and Daniel C. Swan. 2004. Art of the Osage. Seattle: University of Washington Press/Saint Louis Art Museum. Identified there as bison hair lead, ca. 1860. "This type of lead was used to give away horses in ceremonial settings. The plaiting technique, which gives it the maximum strength possible, is so time-consuming that it takes an hour to complete just two inches. Giveaway horse were young and skittish ponies that were not used to being handled, so the lead had to be strong enough to prevent the animals from breaking loose. The ends of the lead are wrapped in red broadcloth with glass beads in the center. The acceptance of the gift would be official when the recipient merely touched the lead with his hand."
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 2-2, p. 30 in Sage, Helene. 2012. Native American horse gear: a golden age of equine-inspired art of the nineteenth century. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub.. Identified there as: "Lead/ceremonial Catch Rope, Osage, c. 1860. This rope was plaited with buffalo hair, with the ends covered in red trade cloth wrapped with several different colors of glass beads; 34" long. Unlike the working model ... this rope was used in a giveaway horse ceremony, in which young animals were presented as gifts to tribal members."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Osage (Wazhazhe)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 055075
label: USNM Number
content: E276518-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Line