Man's Shirt Decorated, Fragmentary
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From Card: Shirt of thin skin; pattern apparently similar to Catlin Mato-tope shirt; one neck flap missing (front); Decoration: originally three quilled rosettes on chest with dewclaw danglers from center (teo [sic] large 3.25" diam. flanking one small 2.25" one); quill or bead panels on sleeves, and transverse ones at cuffs and shoulders missing, but presence once indicated by appearance of rt. sleeve; 2" quilled rosette present at top former sleeve panel. Painting: fighting scene one man on horseback one afoot on front; no horizontal bars on sleeves; red and black geom. painting on neck flap. Other decoration: cut fringe on sleeve pendants, dyed horsehair fringe on sleeve seam.
label: Notes
content: From Card: "Differences in pictographic painting style and in quilled decoration suggest this is not Mandan. -- J.C. Ewers Jan. 14, 1948."
label: Notes
content: 6 parts: One shirt and 5 quillwork fragments. Back of card says "Four quilled strips (woven) formerly separate appear to belong to this specimen. #1 and #2 [are] cuff strips, each 6.75" x 1.25". #3 [is a] strip at side of neck, with quill wrapped fringe, 4" long. #4 [is a] strip across shoulder, [with] quill wrapped fringe, 11" long. One of the quillwork fragments in shown in BW Neg. # 79-5063.
label: Notes
content: E386577 appears to match as a sleeve for shirt E386509.
label: Notes
content: See remarks for E386505.
label: Notes
content: EC303 is a fragment that was cut off the yoke of this shirt (the cut edges align).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 Mar 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 6
place: label: Place
content: Northeast Woodlands (not certain) / Plains (not certain), United States (not certain) / Canada (not certain), North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Plains Indian (?)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386509-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt