Woman's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 20 Mar 1931
label: Collection Date
content: 1872
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen
label: Collector
content: William Courtenay
label: Donor Name
content: Victor J. Evans
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "The yoke of the dress is outlined in a band of deerskin. The sides, sleeves, and bottom of the dress are fringed. In many cases the ends of the fringes have the hair of the animal still remaining. At the bottom of the skirt and at the sides both front and back are sewn squares of cloth, blue and red in color. Originally # 154060, collected by M. M. Hazen, classified as Sioux. Originally this specimen was part of the Hazen coll. # 154060. It was exchanged, and returned to MNH by Evans. Originally catalogued as Sioux." When catalogued as part of the Evans collection, this dress was identified as Ute.
label: Notes
content: For a similar two-skin dress without adornment beyond cloth patches at bottom tabs, compare to NMNH E154061 (Hazen collection), NMAI 128931 (Arikara), and Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 27502 (Mandan). The other Hazen dress was originally cataloged as Sioux, subsequently changed to "Shoshone?" or "Bannock?" The presence of several dresses of this type collected among the Three Affiliated Tribes suggests a regular pattern of trade in this form of dress, typical of the Intermontane tribes. Either the garments, the hides, or the style may have come from the west. Culture identification changed to Hidatsa, Arikara, or Mandan by Candace Greene May 2017 based on a full review of the collecting history and consideration of general stylistic traits.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Jun 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Fort Buford, Williams County, Dakota Territory / North Dakota, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Arikara (Sahnish) (?)
label: Culture
content: Hidatsa (?)
label: Culture
content: Mandan (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 113605
label: USNM Number
content: E357542-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress