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Apache Chieftan’s Badge

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:NA Estimated At:800.00 - 1,000.00 USD
Apache Chieftan’s Badge

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Auction Date:2011 Nov 17 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
A visually striking genuine Apache personal badge of a chief. Badge is of Kyitero Apache origin and dates from circa 1890, and was once a part of the Eleanor Roosevelt Estate. Measuring 3? in diameter, the badge is composed of white, light blue, and dark blue beads, and is suspended on multiple strands of matching beadwork. As was the custom, loose hanging strings of beadwork adorn the lower rim, for an overall length of 17?. The design—in dark blue against a white background surrounded by a twin frame of pale blue beads, is a version of the ancient ‘triskelion’ in which three curved branches radiate from the center. There are some loose beads and bare spots to suspended strings. These badges were typically worn by the chief until death, at which point they were broken in half and buried with them, and the survival of an intact example hardly ever occurred, making this example of the utmost rarity.