"Sioux War Bonnet" dress silks; 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: Four samples of the "Sioux War Bonnet" design dress silk; Mallinson's American Indian series, printed on Mallinson trade name silk quality, "Khaki Kool". Khaki Kool was the Mallinson trade name for a sport silk with a bundled spun silk weft that gave it body. This is a large sample with 3 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.Selvage width; selvage inscription. 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 the American Indian and Early American series. The ground colors are blue, gold (yellow-orange), brown, and turquoise.
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.H
label: accession number
content: 101284
label: catalog number
content: T05749.00H
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric Length
label: Object Name
content: silk samples
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: green ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: gray ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: orange ground (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: Khaki-Kool (overall style)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave; cylinder printed (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 in x 12 in; 43.18 cm x 30.48 cm