Pad Saddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. W. H. Gardener
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PAD SADDLE - STUFFED SKIN PAD; CENTER L. 15"; CENTER WIDTH - 8"; DECORATED WITH FLORAL DESIGNS IN SEED BEADS IN FOUR CORNERS; FOUR PENDANT FLAPS AT SIDES, BEADED. TRANSVERSE COMMERCIAL LEATHER BAND 4 1/2" WIDE ACROSS CENTER RECEIVES NARROW COMM. LEATHER GIRTH IN STRONG LOOPS AT ENDS; THIS BAND COVERED WITH TRANSVERSE PIECE SOFT SKIN (UNDEC.); STIRRUP STRAPS 3" COMM. LEATHER, ADJUSTED BY SEWING. STIRRUPS OF WOOD, RAWHIDE COVERED. INVENTORIED 1978."
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral beadwork.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #422, Ornamented Dakota saddles
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E9062-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Center
content: 38 cm
label: Width - Center
content: 20 cm