Beaver Skin Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 5 Dec 1875
name: label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. OLD LABEL: "MADE OF BEAVER SKIN; SHORT WAISTED AND FRINGED AT THE BOTTOM, ALSO AT END OF SLEEVES; TWO TRIANGULAR FLAPS ABOUT THE NECK." ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 8 G, PG. 299. 19834 LOANED TO SIL 11/17/80. RETURNED 5/4/81." Handbook caption identifies as: "Boy's tunic of beaver skin, tanned with fur on."
label: Notes
content: Listed as Boy's tunic and illustrated (Figure 35a) in Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Shoshone culture attribution per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: Rios Pacheco, Cultural Advisor for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, said the fringes are from an otter pelt based on the texture and length of the hair. Otter fur is shorter and softer than beaver, which is coarser and longer; see the fringes on E19843 (quiver made of otter pelt) for comparison since they are made of otter.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 19 Feb 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ute (Nuche) (?)
label: Culture
content: Shoshone, Northern, Goose Creek (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 75A00070
label: USNM Number
content: E19834-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 38 cm