"Sioux War Bonnet" dress silk; Mallinson's American Indian series
date: label: Date made
content: 1928
name: label: maker
content: H R Mallinson and Company, Incorporated
notes: label: Description
content: A length of the "Sioux War bonnet" design dress silk; Mallinson's American Indian series. The manufacturer's number for this fabric quality (Pussy Willow) is #5459. Pussy Willow was a long time Mallinson trade name for an unweighted, pure dye plain weave silk with a soft hand.. At the time it was popular it was considered similar to a generic fabric type called "radium". This is a large sample with small colorway samples attached. The Sioux War Bonnet design is an allover repeat pattern, with a non-directional effect; based on the large feathered headdress of the Sioux Indians. Judging from drawings by free-lance textile designer Walter Mitschke in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, Mitschke designed this print and several others in Mallinson's American Indian and Early American series.
label: Description
content: Mallinson's American Indian series followed the "National Parks" and "Wonder Caves of America" designs, and illustrates the company's continuing interest in using American themes, and in utilizing the collections of New York area museums for research and inspiration.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: Migel-Mallinson Silks
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of H.R. Mallinson & Co., Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T05749.C
label: accession number
content: 101284
label: catalog number
content: T05749.00C
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: rust (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gold ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: Pussy Willow (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 40 in; 76.2 cm x 101.6 cm