$5,333
Rare Ute Beaded Breastplate, c. last third 19th century, with multiple rows of white and blue glass beads strung between commercial leather spacers decorated with brass tacks, traces of red pigment, 11 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. Provenance: Howell Plummer Myton (1857-1945), former deputy sheriff at Dodge City Kansas under "Bat" Masterson, from 1898-1904 a U.S. Indian Agent at the Uintah Ute Reservation in White Rocks, Utah.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-05-12