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Elk Tooth Dress
(Crow), c. 1890
Cloth, glass beads, elk teeth, bone
Eiteljorg Museum.Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mort Swango.89.14.5 54

Elk Tooth Dress
This woman's dress is decorated with teeth from an elk known as "milk teeth."Because each adult elk had only two milk teeth, they were valuable. It would take lots of elk to make a dress like this, so often people carved and filed bones to look like teeth.They even added a stain to make the tooth look real.

 

 

 

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