Buckskin Pants
date: label: Accession Date
content: 29 May 1876
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "AT THE TIME WHEN THE EXHIBITS WERE TAKEN DOWN FROM HALL 11, DURING THE 1950S A PAIR OF PANTS WAS TAKEN OFF ONE OF THE FIGURES, AND THERE WAS SOME INDICATION THAT IT MIGHT BE THIS NUMBER BUT IN VIEW OF THE FOLLOWING IT PROBABLY IS NOT. 2/5/64 MRS. MARG. BLAKER, BAE. ARCHIVES RECEIVED CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE ROCHESTER MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SCIENCES THAT INDICATES THAT THIS SPECIMEN IS IN THEIR COLLECTION HAVING BEEN RECEIVED FROM SOME PRIVATE SOURCE.-R. ELDER. "THIS SPECIMEN, AS OF JAN. 2, 1964, IS IN POSSESSION OF ROCHESTER MUSEUM OF ARTS AND SERVICES, WHERE IT IS CATALOGED AS THEIR CAT. NO. (RMAS AE 9845). THERE IS NO RECORD AT EITHER THE USMN OR ROCHESTER MUSEUM AS TO HOW IT GOT TO THEM. SEE LETTER FROM CHARLES F. HAYES, JAN. 20, 1964, AMONG ACCESSION PAPERS." MARCH 1964 THERE WAS RETURNED TO THE USNM. THE ABOVE SPECIMEN BUT IT AS NOT A "LEGGIN", RATHER THE LEFT LEG OF THE PAIR OF TROUSERS, WHICH HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN REMOVED FROM THE OTHHER ONE AT SOME TIME. IT IS PLAIN MEDIUM TAN SKIN, HEAVILY FRINGED ALONG THE OUTER EDGE. ALSO BEARS AN UNIDENTIFIED NUMBER: "1900."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2014
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Arizona, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Hopi
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 76A00060
label: USNM Number
content: E23152-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Trousers