Chiricahua Apache Bone Breast Plate

This is an original Chiricahua Apache Bone Breast Plate from the late-1900's. The piece shows several rows of hairpipe bone beads with dark patina'd coloring showing large old wound glass trade beads as spacers and gaskets of leather for each row framed in brass beads and fringes on the outside. The center shows a round medallion beaded with glass beads with an Eagle, Crow or Thunderbird effigy having a beaded and feather drop at the center. The breast plate is noted as being from the Chiricahua Apache. Measures overall 39-inches long from back of neck to bottom of fringes. Bone area is about 12.5-inches wide.