Boy's Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 May 1892
label: Collection Date
content: C. 1891
name: label: Collector
content: Mr. James Mooney
label: Donor Name
content: Bureau Of American Ethnology
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "3. Beaded and Fringed." This shirt is marked 152841, but does not match the catalog description for this number, a "man's costume," including a shirt located in the collection. This item was therefore assigned to cat. no. 152850, a group of boy's shirts, by Candace Greene in 1992. At that time, one of the three shirts noted on the catalog card was missing and this specimen was assumed to be the missing one. However, another shirt with number 152850 was located when exhibit Hall 9 was dismantled in 2005, resulting in a total of four shirts. Although the specimen count does not match, the 152850 designation was retained for the mismarked shirt, as there were count errors in this accession. The shirt is certainly Kiowa and received as part of the same accession.
label: Notes
content: [Describing parts E152850-0, -1 and -3:] 1. Green painted hide with yellow inset sleeves and u-shaped tabs at neck. Painted fringe and lazy stitch beadwork around tabs, sleeve seams and on sleeves. Metal studs around tabs. 25.5" (65 cm) 2. Yellow painted hide with long extensions at side seams, inset sleeves and v-shaped tabs, front and back. Blue painted fringe and lazy stitch beadwork on sleeve seams and edge of tabs. Cloth bundles probably containing herbs tied to shoulders and front and back. 23.75" (60 cm) 3. Green painted hide with square yellow tabs added at lower sides, inset sleeves, triangular tabs, front and back. Blue line around bottom and cuffs. Blue painted fringe at sleeve seams, elbows and around tab. Lazy stitch beadwork around sleeve seams and edge of back tab. Sections of geometric overlay beadwork on shoulder seams. Deer tail and glass bead pendants hang from shoulders and back tab. 23.25" (59 cm). Records: Made of buckskin dyed by having pigments rubbed into the surface. (C). (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Oct 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kiowa And Comanche Reservation, Oklahoma / Indian Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025718
label: USNM Number
content: E152850-3
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt