Skirt Or Apron
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
name: label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The skirt is made of six skins of the ringtailed cat (Bassariscus). It has a fringed buckskin belt attached."
label: Notes
content: The ringtail (Bassariscus astutus) is a mammal of the raccoon family, native to arid regions of North America. It is also known as the ringtail cat, ring-tailed cat, miner's cat or bassarisk. The ringtail is found in the southwestern United States in southern Oregon, California, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Nevada, Utah and Texas. In Mexico it ranges from the northern desert state of Baja California to Oaxaca. It is commonly found in rocky desert habitats, where it nests in the hollows of trees or abandoned wooden structures. The ringtail has been found throughout the Great Basin Desert, which stretches over several states (Nevada, Utah, California, Idaho, and Oregon) as well as the Sonoran desert in Arizona, and the Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico, Texas, and northern Mexico. Source of the above information: Wikipedia contributors, "Ring-tailed cat," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ring-tailed_cat&oldid=847631401 (accessed July 19, 2018).
label: Notes
content: Looks like a man's dance apron or skirt?; compare to similar apron E383439, which is identified as Hupa or Karuk (Yurok is another possibility).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, North, California, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E358688-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Apron