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Custer Battle Flag

Date1876
ClassificationsTextiles
Dimensions32 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches (82.55 x 67.31 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase with funds from the Hon. Don M. Dickinson
Object numberML_95.2
DescriptionSwallow-tailed; thirteen red and white stripes and thirty-five gold stars on a blue canton arranged in two concentric circles with a single star at each corner.
On View
On view
Collections
  • American Design Team: Charles and Ray Eames
  • Decorative Art
Locations
  • (not entered)   Demo Museum (Hanover Square), Conservation, Works on Paper
ProvenanceFound by Sergeant F.A. Culbertson after massacre on the Little Big Horn River, Montana, June 25, 1878.