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ITEM NUMBER: AK1170

Early Osage Bone Roach Spreader

$2,000

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Carved bone, incised and scrimshawed roach spreader from the Oto or Osage of the upper Missouri with an early 20th-century age. The piece shows a classic upper Missouri roach spreader pattern with incised / carved design with black scrimshaw design having filigree cutouts. Carved from bone. Provenance: From a private ex-museum collection from Eastern Montana. These were used to hold a feather erect in a porcupine roach headdress. 6 3/4"L x 1 1/2"W

PERIOD: Unknown

ORIGIN: Unknown, Native American

SIZE: 6 3/4"L x 1 1/2"W

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