Hair-Pipe Necklace
Cleveland Museum of Art

Hair-Pipe Necklace

early 1900s

Cow-bone hair pipes, glass beads, brass beads, silk ribbon, metal coin, Native-tanned hide or rawhide stringing, vegetable-tanned hide separators
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Among the most spectacular of Plains ornaments are men’s breastplates and women’s necklaces made of cylindrical beads.

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