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Object Name	necklace
Tribe	Omaha
Object Type	necklace
Description	"Loom beaded green, orange, black, red, purple beaded designs in triangles and diamonds on white background. Beaded and shell pendant ends"
Museum	Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Catalog Number	64637
Primary Material	beads
Primary Decorative	beadwork, woven
Subject	clothing/personal
Year of Coll/Manuf	1965
Length	73.0 cm
Notes	"Beaded necklace with cowry shell pendants. This item, which is almost certainly Omaha work, was purchased from Mrs. Niblick, a collector of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1965. It had belonged to her father, who was a physician in the Indian Service in the early years of the 20th century. Similar necklaces frequently appear in photographs of Omaha men taken in the late 19th century (Cf. Fletcher and La Flesche, The Omaha Tribe, Fig. 73; ibid. plate 31)"
Materials	glass beads, cowry shells
Provenance	See notes
State of Coll/Manuf	South Dakota
Collection	Omaha Indian Heritage Project