Child's Saddle, Pad Saddle Type
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Sep 1985
name: label: Collector
content: Family Of General Alfred Sully
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Linda S. Dreibelbis
notes: label: Notes
content: PAD SADDLE. RECTANGULAR PIECE OF BUCKSKIN, BOUND ON OPPOSITE SIDES INTO A PADDED ROLL. STRETCHED ACROSS THIS IS A PLAINCLOTH LINED PIECE OF RED WOOL STRANDING TO THE EDGES OF WHICH ARE ATTACHED TUBULAR AMBER GLASS BEADS. CORNERS OF BOTH PARTS DECORATED IN GEOMETRIC FLORAL DESIGNS IN THE FINEST OF GLASS BEADS. ON BOTTOM ARE TWO ORDINARY COMMERCIAL LEATHER CINCH STRAPS. PROBABLY MADE ABOUT 1873. SOME BEADS ARE LOOSE.
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes floral beadwork.
label: Notes
content: Information from accession file: In answer to questions from Robert Elder of the museum staff, the donor stated that the saddle was made in 1873 for her grandfather, Albert Walter Sully, born 9/13/1867, son of General Alfred Sully. The Indians who made it are said to have been connected with Sitting Bull.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 15 Feb 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Dakota Territory, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Sioux (Oceti Sakowin), Hunkpapa Lakota
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 360987
label: USNM Number
content: E422910-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Saddle
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 46 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 71 cm