File:Serpent Sideplate (FOUS 1414) (b1910388-1dd8-b71b-0b94-17ba57686bd2).jpg

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English: Serpent Sideplate (FOUS 1414)
Photographer
English: NPS photo
Title
English: Serpent Sideplate (FOUS 1414)
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

Serpent sideplate fragment.

Once a Northwest Trade gun wore out or broke, American Indians sometimes removed serpent sideplates from the gun stocks and used them for other purposes. Some individuals among the Blackfeet, for instance, fashioned decorative breastplates from strung-together sideplates like this one. While a Europeans viewed breastplates as a piece of chest armor, ones that American Indians made from serpent sideplates were more likely served as decorative elements or spiritual purposes.

  • Keywords: fort; union; trading; post; fur; trade; sideplate
Depicted place
English: Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Date Taken on 25 February 2017
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b1910388-1dd8-b71b-0b94-17ba57686bd2
Source
English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
NPS Unit Code
InfoField
FOUS
Album(s)
InfoField
English: Artifacts of Fort Union: Weapons

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