Finger Breastplate Sioux style

Here is a gruesome piece of native warfare fashioned into a breatsplate. The fingers were collected like scalps and were thought to contain captured power. This piece was created to show no mercy and the brutality of living on the sagebrush plains.I have used parfleche rawhide painted with earth pigments,brass wire,french brass beads,and braintan ties.To wear such a piece one had to collect a few items first .