Plateau Yakima Women's Dress
$46,500.00
1850 - 1860s
Tanned mountain sheep with pony beads
Height 43" Width 54" with custom wall mount
Provenance: Santa Fe trade
Private collection, Santa Fe, NM
Michael Kokin, Spirit of America Volume 3:6.
Dr Robert Pamplin, Jr Oregon
A beautiful and important dress constructed out of native-tanned mountain sheep hides tailored in a two-piece hide construction. The yoke is decorated with hemp-sewn pony beads, which are arranged in wide lanes which contour with hide. The beadwork consists of red bands, which are flanked on either side by two black lines; they sit on white ground. Below the yoke are sequential thongs which are accented with ovular beads.