Woman's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Nov 1947
name: label: Collector
content: Brig. Gen. James D. Glennan
label: Donor Name
content: Frances Glennan
notes: label: Notes
content: Woman's dress. Hide with poncho-style top painted yellow and edged in red, skirt predominantly unpainted with bands of red and green. Rows of elk teeth on bodice, broad band of geometric overlay beadwork at neck with narrower lines of beadwork around edge of bodice and on skirt, heavy fringe on sleeves and around hem with additional fringe and metal cones in rows on skirt. 42" (106 cm). Records: Elk teeth have been added to it. Elk teeth are the family jewels and are handed down from generation to generation. As there are only two of these teeth to an elk, and elk are extinct in this part of the country, they are now very valuable. A customary price was one or two horses for a bunch. (C). Associated names: Odelpah's wife. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Notes
content: Reference: Kostelnik, Michael. 19th century Kiowa women's ceremonial dress clothing : The elk tooth buckskin dress. Whispering Wind, Vol. 45, No. 4, Jul 2017: 7-20. Kostelnik attributes the dress as from Ananthy Odlepaugh.
label: Notes
content: Entered in Glennan's catalog as: 83. Kiowa woman's dress, elk teeth, from wife of Odlepah, Kiowa soldier. Elk teeth have been added to it. Elk teeth are the family jewels, and are handed down from generation to generation. As there are only two of these teeth in an elk , and elk are extinct in this part of the country, they are now very valuable. A customary price was one or two horses for a bunch.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Oklahoma Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 177672
label: USNM Number
content: E385892-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress