Girl's Clothing Set: Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 2 May 1885
name: label: Donor Name
content: Capt. Richard H. Pratt
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Made of blue flannel. Consists of skirt [word "skirt" is struck through], belt, 2 ear-rings & brass [word "brass" is struck through] shell necklace. Blue stroud dress. completely decorated on yoke with multiple rows of elk teeth. Illus.: [Handbook of] N. Amer. Ind., Vol. 4, Fig. 2 right, p. 399. From Acc. Papers: "Dear Sir, A few months since you desired me to get a few Indian dresses for you No pupils having native suits have arrived since, but I find a girls suit in the hands of Rosa White Thunder who came two years ago. It is extra fine. She is the daughter of White Thunder who was chief of the Waz aza Sioux and killed by young Spotted Tail a year ago. The suit consists of a dress of blue strouding ornamented with about 400 elk teeth, a wampum shell necklace and long ear pendants of the same [sic, appear to be dentalium shells, or at least those in the earrings are, rather than wampum], and a broad belt covered with brass knob tacks. They value these things highly. She thought she ought to have $50 but consents to take $40. I can send it down if you desire. Respectfully, R. H. Pratt Capt & Supt See photos 76352-3 (T -> Archives) Acc 16331".
label: Notes
content: Ledger book and accession record indicate this was a set consisting of "skirt" (a.k.a. elk tooth dress made of "blue flannel" or stroud cloth), belt, long earrings, and shell necklace, but as of 2009, only the dress and belt are still found in the collection. The earrings and necklace have not been located in the collections.
label: Notes
content: The National Anthropological Archives has photos of Rosa White Thunder where she appears to be wearing the clothing in this donation. See for example NAA INV 06907900 in Photo Lot 81-12 and BAE GN SI 8384.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 30 May 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Brule (Sicangu) Lakota
label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Teton (Lakota)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 015995
label: USNM Number
content: E76240-1
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress