This is a stunning bone hair pipe men's breast plate from the Sioux of the Northern Plains dating to circa 1920-1940's. The piece exhibits carved long slender bone hair pipe / hairpipe double row of beads with harness leather separations further decorated with old solid brass trade beads and large old wound glass padre trade beads in a pastel coloring. The early padre beads show colors of light pink, light blue to lilac and light green. The breast plate / breastplate also shows a trade mirror at the middle near the neck which has been wrapped in Indian tanned hide with a fancy cut edge, red ochre / ocher dyed coloring and adorned with wound glass pony trade beads in pink and semi-transparent dark green with a single fringe holding old copper and multi-layered chevron trade beads with an old red stroud wool wrapped and old glass trade seed beaded drop of horse tail hair. The outside edge shows a nice row of solid brass old trade beads with long frilly fringes having a dark coloring and at the bottom a fancy row of the padre beads further adorned with metal and brass hawk bells and thimbals. At the top there are two fringes of old ribbon with padre beads and thimbals and further the neck piece shows more padre beads, brass beads, a jingle dangle cone in what looks like tin and copper and a leather strap. The piece displays beautifully and is a fine representation of an early Indian Reservation era piece from the early 1900's. From an ex-South Dakota estate and was said to have been collected from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1970's. Measures overall 40-inches high from the back of the neck piece to bottom of the fringes by 27-inches wide with fringes. The bone and leather section without fringes or neck piece is about 11-inches wide.