Five fringes. Tapestry technique with geometrical designs in light blue, red-brown and black. Dyed cotton and camelid wool; yellow-brown ground. Incomplete.

Gift of Kay Hodnett Nunez

Fringe made of brown and yellow-brown camelid wool, forming a braid and slightly knotted at one side. Incomplete.

Gift of Mrs. Eugene Schaefer

Gift of Kay Hodnett Nunez

Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund

Brooklyn Museum Collection

This fringe is made from a partially tanned strip of buffalo hide that is wrapped at the top with bird quills. Several lines of this quill wrapped fringe combine to form repeated blocks of color. Usually quillwork comes down longer. The top of the quilled section has a row of white beads that resemble olivella shells.Usually quillwork comes down longer.From left to right the blocks are: blue, black, and brown (perhaps once orange) repeated in sequence. .The shell beads are unusual and the porcupine quill and white beads come from over in the Minnesota area. It is too wide for a pipe bag. Possibly Mandan-Hidatsa area or Sioux.