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Sioux Pictorial Beaded Vest

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:4,500.00 USD Estimated At:9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD
Sioux Pictorial Beaded Vest
Preview: Phoenix Marriott Mesa - 200 N Centennial Way, Mesa, AZ 85201
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Thursday January 27 -- 3:00 pm-7:00 pm
Friday January 28 -- 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday January 29 – 9:00 am -4:30 pm
20” x 20” horses, buffaloes, human faces, sunburst and geometric designs in dark blue, red, green and yellow beads on white field. Fringe on shoulders, arm holes, along the side seams and across the bottom. Fine condition, c 1880 SIOUX VEST by Benson L Lanford American Indians are especially creative people, ready to adopt things beneficial to their needs and modify them to suit their tastes and cultural values. Long before contact times with Europeans, Indians had of course developed an immense body of material culture, including amazingly wide-ranging types and styles of clothing— all subject to amazingly diverse artistic elaboration. All manner of objects could be subject to artful decoration. One of the more noticeable kinds of garment borrowed from Euro-Americans and seen in considerable numbers is the vest. Beginning perhaps sometime during the mid 19th century, Plains and Plateau Indians in particular adopted this item of clothing. The Western Sioux (Lakota), especially took to the new fashion, and in part for being a very large tribe, may have produced more vests per capita than any other tribe. (READ MORE p 130)