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Source Description
The animal-hide robes basic to Plains attire were often ornamented with quilled or beaded strips, which also were stitched to the blankets that replaced robes. This beaded example carries the cross-in-a-circle motif that symbolizes the world, the four directions, and the sacred center, concepts central to Plains worldviews. In the 1932 words of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) holy man, “[T]he power of the world always works in circles. . . . The flowering tree was at the center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. . . . Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.”
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Document identity
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117303
label
Blanket Strip
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object
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1
Source metadata
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117303
contentType
object
title
Blanket Strip
description
The animal-hide robes basic to Plains attire were often ornamented with quilled or beaded strips, which also were stitched to the blankets that replaced robes. This beaded example carries the cross-in-a-circle motif that symbolizes the world, the four directions, and the sacred center, concepts central to Plains worldviews. In the 1932 words of Black Elk, the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) holy man, “[T]he power of the world always works in circles. . . . The flowering tree was at the center of the hoop, and the circle of the four quarters nourished it. . . . Everything the power of the world does is done in a circle.”
date
c. 1900
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80011779
genreSpecific
Leather
imageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 163.2 x 13.2 cm (64 1/4 x 5 3/16 in.)
cul
Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne)
accession
1937.865
Source extras
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Native-tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, sinew thread
tombstone
Blanket Strip, c. 1900. Native North America, Plains, Tsitsistas (Cheyenne). Native-tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, sinew thread ; overall: 163.2 x 13.2 cm (64 1/4 x 5 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White, 1937.865
collection
T - Native North American
didYouKnow
This beaded strip was stitched to a hide or a blanket.
citations
citation
Ruggles, Ruth. "The Amelia Elizabeth White Indian Collection." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art </em>25, no. 2 (February 1938): 25-26, 35.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 26; Reproduced: p. 35
creditline
Gift of Amelia Elizabeth White
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2026-05-29 06:05:16.174000
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117303
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Textiles
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T - Native North American
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Native-tanned hide, glass beads, metal beads, sinew thread
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