Tipi Lining
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Mar 1892
name: label: Collector
content: Capt. Richard H. Pratt
label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Richard H. Pratt
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM NMNH EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/1998): "2 SKINS JOINED IN THE MIDDLE W/ SINEW. 1 SECTION OF PATCHING ON ONE SIDE'S EDGE. EACH SHORT SIDE HAS HOLES FOR JOINING TO OTHER LININGS. TOP EDGE HAS HOLES W/ SOME BUCKSKIN THONGS & SOME FABRIC STRIPS USED FOR SECURING. LINING DECORATED W/ HORIZONTAL BANDS OF GLASS BEADS & RED TRADE CLOTH BOW-TIES. TOP BAND & CENTER SEAM HAVE TASSELS OF BUCKSKIN THONGS WRAPPED W/ VEGETABLE FIBERS & FITTED W/ DEW CLAWS & HAIR TUFTS. FIBER WRAPPINGS ARE DYED BROWN, YELLOW, & RED. ALTERNATING TASSELS ARE SECURED TO THE CENTER OF BEADED MEDALLIONS (14 IN ALL), WHICH ARE SEWN TO THE SKIN W/ THREAD. ENTIRE BOTTOM EDGE HAS STITCH HOLES, SUGGESTING THAT THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL PIECE, NOW REMOVED. THERE ARE SOME ETHNOGRAPHIC & OTHER (?) REPAIRS TO HOLES."
label: Notes
content: From card: "Identification [as Cheyenne tipi lining] by Father Peter J. Powell on basis of style. May be item listed in accession record as "Dancing Blanket - Cheyenne." - W. Merrill 10-14-1990".
label: Notes
content: Recorded in the original accession file as: 1 Dancing Blanket, Cheyenne, 1888, $27.50 . It is not known why this item was entered into the catalog as Sioux, since corrected to correspond with information from the donor.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Aug 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains Northern, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 025516
label: USNM Number
content: E153594-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Lining
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 394 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 163 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 6.3 cm