Shawl
date: label: Accession Date
content: 17 Feb 2017
label: Collection Date
content: 13 Jun 2006
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Candace S. Greene
label: Collector
content: Dr. Michael Jordan
label: Donor Name
content: National Museum of Natural History
notes: label: Notes
content: The shawl was purchased in June 2006 from the shop of the craft cooperative located at the Southern Plains Indian Museum in Anadarko, Oklahoma. It was made by Josephine Parker about two years previously. Ms. Parker learned to make shawls from her mother Netty Standing, one of the founding members of the craft cooperative that operates at the museum. Mrs. Parker sells most of her shawls through the museum shop, which purchases her shawls for approximately $75.00. She estimated costs of materials to produce a shawl at between $35.00 and $40.00.Mrs. Parker notes that she used to employ light weight wool, but since this has become more difficult to acquire, she has started using gabardine (a twilled weave). She avoids double knit, as it is difficult to pierce with a needle, making it difficult to fringe. For the ribbonwork appliqué she uses taffeta or sateen fabric. She prefers to use four colors in her ribbonwork designs and has created many different designs, using patterns made of manila folders. She comments that the availability of heat set bonding material such “wonder under” and “heat bond” has made ribbonwork easier. Previously, she had to cut the pattern larger, fold the excess over, pin it, and sew it down. Now she can back the material with the “wonder under,” cut it to size, iron it down, and then sew the edge down using a zigzag stitch. Her shawls are typically black, red, white, or royal blue. She noted that families who have experienced a death will sometimes purchase black shawls which are placed on the deceased's casket during the funeral. Such shawls are then given away at the end of the service for general use. Description: The shawl is made of 1 ¾ yards of navy blue gabardine material and is fringed on all four sides with navy blue fringe. Two lengths of fringe have been used, so that four strands hang down from each knot. It is decorated with a 6” wide strip of appliquéd ribbonwork in four different colored strips of taffeta – navy blue, and teal, on a ground of light purple and pink. Three geometric patterns that mirror one another and have been sewed on top of the purple and pink, with the navy blue positioned over the purple and the teal over the pink. Cut outs allow the purple and pink to show through the blue and teal material forming geometric designs. This information is an extract from more extended documentation provided by Josephine Parker in a 2006 interview, see attached.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Sep 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2076808
label: USNM Number
content: E434670-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dance Garment
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 137 cm
label: Width
content: 132 cm