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Southern Plains Chief's Bandolier Necklace 1900

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:650.00 - 950.00 USD
Southern Plains Chief's Bandolier Necklace 1900
The lot features a unique, large Chief's necklace bandolier from the Southern Plains to Coastal Native American Indians of the early 1900's. The piece shows a very large, double strand bandolier necklace featuring silver concho pearl beads, Eucalyptus tree nut beads, and concho wampum shells. The necklace likely dates to the early- to mid-1900's. The silver beads are likely German silver and show a vertical seam spherical construction. The piece shows a drop of three fringes with the same beads on harness saddle leather gasket and concho shells on the ends. At one side is a drop of a nickel silver concho with five fringe strands with smaller silver and wood/seed beads and conch shells on each end (one missing). Large bandolier examples such as this are immensely uncommon. Provenance: Form a large Billings, Montana American Indian collection. Overall, it measures strung (from the back of the neck to the end of the bottom fringes when laid flat and pulled firm) 41" L and approximately 63" in circumference. Some of the seed nut beads have cracks and are lose or broken off.