Girl's Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1874
name: label: Collector
content: Major John W. Powell
label: Donor Name
content: Major John W. Powell
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "INVENTORIED 1975. ILLUS.: HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 11, GREAT BASIN, FIG. 4D, PG. 376." Handbook identifies as a girl's dress, Kaibab Paiute, and notes elk teeth decoration.
label: Notes
content: Illustrated in Fowler and Matley (1979) (Figure 31).
label: Notes
content: Culture attribution as Kaibab Paiute per Fowler and Matley (1979)
label: Notes
content: There appears to have been some confusion during the cataloguing of the Powell collections. The default cultural designation for many of the artifacts was "Paiute". In addition, Powell apparently brought clothing of White River Ute manufacture he had previously collected in Colorado to southern Utah in 1873 to 'dress up' the Kaibab Paiute - see for Example # E10799. Some of these Ute materials were then apparently subsequently catalogued/recatalogued by the Smithsonian to the "default" Paiute designation. This dress has similar characteristics to some of the Ute dresses in the Powell collections.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 10 May 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: South, Utah, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Paiute, Southern, Kaibab
label: Culture
content: Ute (Nuche) (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 74A00055
label: USNM Number
content: E14368-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress