A bead-woven band decorated with silk ribbons. Exchanged with the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, part of Wyman collection; obtained by Wyman among the Winnebago.
Reasons for connecting this relative with particular nation(s)
stated to be collected among the Winnebago
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Materials
seed beads (yellwo, white, red/white inside, dark and light blue, pink), violet, yellow, red and varicolored silk ribbons, cotton yarn, lether
Techniques or Format
A long bead-woven band. The middle part is a rectengular bead-woven stripe with its undecorated warps braided and again woven at both ends in diagonal bead-bands, which are parted in two separate bands, ending in brass beads with attached silk ribbons.
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