Sash Or Scarf Of Trade Cloth
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1869
name: label: Donor Name
content: Army Medical Museum
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "PART OF GRAVE ESCORT GOODS, CHEYENNE CHILD'S PLATFORM BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, U.S.N.M., MAY 1947-"A 4 1/2" X 87" FABRIC IN DOUBLE WARP KNIT APPEARING AS A DOUBLE CLOTH; PRODUCED FROM AS MANY THREADS AS THERE ARE WALES; COMPOSED OF THREADS WHICH DO NOT FORM EACH LOOP JOINING THE ONE PREVIOUSLY FORMED IN THE SAME COURSE AS IN WEFT KNITTING, BUT PRODUCES IT IN THE NEXT COURSE AND THE NEXT WALE. ON THE FACE OF THE FABRIC ROWS ARE SEEN RUNNING VERTICALLY THE LENGTH OF THE CLOTH, WHEREAS ON THE BACK ROWS APPEAR TO RUN FROM SIDE TO SIDE. THIS FABRIC DOES NOT RAVEL, MADE ON A WARP KNITTING MACHINE; STOCK OF YARN DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; STRIPED PATTERN SHOWING TWO 1-INCH TAN LENGTHWISE STRIPES ALTERNATING WITH THREE 3/4" RED LENGTHWISE STRIPES; 34 MACHINE KNIT CIRCULAR STRANDS BRAIDED IN FOUR PLY CIRCULAR 7" BRAID AT ONE END AND 34 MACHINE KNIT CIRCULAR STRANDS IN 7-PLY FLAT 6" BRAID AT THE OTHER END, BOT ENDS FINISHED WITH 2 1/2" TASSELS; USED AS A SCARF OR MUFFLER, CALLED A TIPPET. THIS TEXTILE COULD HAVE BEEN MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND OR IN THE UNITED STATES." PROPER NAME: TIPPET." SEE B.A.E. 1ST ANNUAL REPORT, PP. 162-3.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 5 Sep 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Walnut Creek, Near, Kansas, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 001622
label: USNM Number
content: E8863-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sash
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 11.4 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 221 cm