Beaded Coat
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jan 1890
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. George M. Kober
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. George M. Kober
notes: label: Notes
content: MATERIALS: BUCKSKIN, WOOL CLOTH, COTTON CLOTH, SILK THREAD, GLASS BEADS, COTTON TAPE OR FOX BRAID; PRIMARILY THREAD SEWN WITH SOME SINEW. - F. PICKERING 1-28-1999
label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "NEZ PERCE COSTUME. BUCKSKIN."
label: Notes
content: ACCORDING TO KOBER'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY, REMINISCENCES OF GEORGE MARTIN KOBER, M.D., LL.D., P. 362, THIS OBJECT AND #131242 WERE A SUIT MADE FOR YOUNG CHIEF JOSEPH BY A GROUP OF WOMEN THAT INCLUDED ONE OF ARCHIE LAWYER'S SISTERS LUCY. THEY WERE RECOVERED FROM AMONG MATERIAL ABANDONED BY THE NON-TREATY NEZ PERCE AS THEY FLED THE BATTLE OF THE CLEARWATER (JULY 11-12, 1877) AND WERE RETURNED TO MISS LAWYER. KOBER SECURED THEM FROM HER ON THE PROMISE THEY WOULD BE GIVEN TO THE SMITHSONIAN. KOBER ARRIVED ON THE NEZ PERCE RESERVATION TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BATTLE. THE PREVALENCE OF "CHIEF JOSEPH" ARTIFACTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, THE EUROPEAN CUT AND DECORATION OF GARMENT, AND THE DOCUMENTED TRADING ACTIVITY OF THE LAWYER WOMEN SUGGEST THAT THE PURPORTED PROVENIENCE OF OBJECT SHOULD BE ACCEPTED WITH CAUTION. ALSO, IF COAT AND PANTS ARE WHAT THEY ARE PURPORTED TO BE, THEY ARE THE ONLY SILK EMBROIDERED AND EUROPEAN STYLE GARMENTS I HAVE EVER SEEN WITH A NEZ PERCE ATTRIBUTION. - STEVEN L. GRAFE 1997
label: Notes
content: Illus. Fig. 9, p. 69 in Illus. Fig. 7, p. 67 in Grafe, Steven L., 1999, "Nez Perce Decorative Art of the 1870s," American Indian Art Magazine, 24(4). Identified there: man's coat, buckskin, wool cloth, cotton cloth, silk thread, glass beads, sinew and cotton thread, 35 7/16" x 23 5/8" wide (90 x 60 cm.).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Kamiah, Lewis County, Idaho, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Nez Perce (Nimiipuu)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 022761
label: USNM Number
content: E131241-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coat
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 90 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 60 cm