Pair Of Garters
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1932
name: label: Donor Name
content: Tom Bacon Rind
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Beaded cloth, with fringes of beaded woolen yarn. Loaned to Osage Agency. Bu Ind. Affairs. 10/1/37 Returned Fall 1968."
label: Notes
content: Illus. p. 173 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 a man's garters. "The garters were tied around the leg below the knees with hide thongs that are visible behind the tassels [at either end]. The tassels hung on the outside of the leg, moving with the motion of the wearer. The lightning bolt images underneath the pinto horse heads symbolize speed, and the hands (not to be confused with the severed hand seen elsewhere in Osage art) suggest the palm prints of the owner. The six-pointed stars represent the morning and evening stars, while the hourglass shapes at the stars' centers are sometimes seen as overhead views of a tornado. These garters are an excellent example of the finest imagery illustrating Osage cosmic forces in beadwork."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 9 Aug 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Pawhuska, Osage County, 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: 120063
label: USNM Number
content: E364517-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Garter