Pad Saddle
date: label: Accession Date
content: 18 Feb 1869
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. U S Army Charles C. Gray
label: Collector
content: Dr. Washington Matthews
label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "TYPICAL PAD SADDLE TYPE; TWO PIECES OF SKIN, STUFFED WITH BUFFALO HAIR TO MAKE HOUR GLASS SHAPE; CENTER STRIP NOT STUFFED. DECORATED WITH SEED BEADS IN AREAS OF FLORAL (GENERALIZED) AT FOUR CORNERS TOP SIDE, AND WITH 4 SIDE FLAPS DECORATED. TRANSVERSE RAWHIDE BAND HOLDS STIRRUP STRAPS VIA METAL RINGS. STIRRUPS OF WOOD COVERED WITH RAWHIDE. CINCH IS 1 1/2" WIDE COMMERCIAL LEATHER WITH METAL BUCKLE AT END SEWN BETWEEN SADDLE TAB AND TRANSVERSE RAWHIDE STRIP AT LEFT SIDE; BUCKLES TO LATIGO STRAP SUSPENDED BY SEWING BETWEEN SADDLE TABS ON RIGHT SIDE. NOTE: THOUGH AN EARLY SPECIMEN THE COMMERCIAL LEATHER CINCH AND SADDLE STRAPS, BOTH WITH METAL BUCKLES; AND METAL RINGS USED IN HANGING STIRRUPS BESPEAK WHITE INFLUENCE ON THE GIRTHING.-J.C.E. 1948. LOAN: SEEDS OF CHANGE MAY 29 1991. LOAN RETURNED: JUN 4 1993. A NATION OF NATIONS 12/75. LOAN RETURNED AUG 1988."
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral beadwork.
label: Notes
content: Listed in original AMM catalog as #115, Pad Saddle. Yanktonais Sioux
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 2
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Yanktonai (Ihanktonwana, Hunkpatina) Dakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 416140
label: USNM Number
content: E8415-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle