Trade Textile, Sewn Into Bag
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 BURIAL. TECHNICAL IDENTIFICATION BY MISS WINDHORST, DIV. OF TEXTILES, U.S.N.M., MAY 1947- SEE OVER. "A 24" X 80" COARSE, FABRIC WOVEN IN 2/2 TWILL WEAVE TO THE RIGHT ON A HAND LOOM FROM HAND SPUN YARNS; THREAD COUNT 10 X 12; 100% WOOL; STOCK OR YARN DYED WITH NATURAL DYES; STRIPED PATTERN SHOWING BROWN AND TAN STRIPES OF VARYING WIDTHS WITH AREAS OF IRREGULAR BLEND OF BROWN AND TAN YARNS; SELVAGES OVER-HANDED TOGETHER AND FINISHED WITH A 2 1/2" HEM HAVING 6" X 4" PATCHES APPLIED TO THE WRONG SIDE TO FACILITATE THE CARRYING OF SMALL ARTICLES: PROBABLY USED AS A SACK OR BAG FOR HOLDING LOOSE, COARSE OR BULKY ARTICLES. PROPER NAME. HOMESPUN. THIS TEXTILE WAS PROBABLY MADE IN THE UNITED STATES." 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: E8861-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Bag
physicalDescription: label: Unknown - Object
content: 61 cm
label: Unknown - Object
content: 203 cm