Lot 246

Plateau Fully Beaded Rosette Medallions c. 1880-90

Estimate: $600 - $1,100

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The lot features four fully beaded hide rosette medallions from the Plateau Native American Indians, dating to circa 1880-1890’s. The late-19th-Century pieces are trade cotton thread sewn onto Indian tanned hide in a round rosette medallion pattern, which is completely covered on the front with 1800’s period-correct, rare, petit glass trade seed cen beads with a fine, tightly-done geometric pattern. The beadwork shows a background of greasy butterscotch with pattern in greasy blue and semi-transparent rose and a fancy edge in faceted iridescent black beads. Rosette medallions, such as this, would have been attached to things like moccasins, war shirts, pipe bags, and other bags. These examples are well preserved and in museum condition, with little-to-no bead loss and supple hide. Provenance: From a private museum collection in the Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes region of France. Each rosette measures 3 5/8” diameter.
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