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date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1892 to 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Rev. Eugene S. Dutcher
label: Collector
content: Mary B. Dutcher
label: Donor Name
content: Donald Cummings
notes: label: Notes
content: HIDE, SOME HAIR STILL ATTACHED, FLESH SIDE TANNED AND PAINTED WITH BATTLE AND BEAR AND MOOSE HUNTING VIGNETTES IN RED, BLUE, YELLOW AND GREEN. HIDE APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN SEWN ONTO CLOTH BACKING AT ONE TIME. PAINTED ANIMALS AND HUMAN FIGURES, BOTH INDIAN AND WHITE, DEPICTED IN STYLIZED FASHION; HUMANS USUALLY WITH SQUARE OR TRIANGULAR BODIES, SOME ON HORSEBACK. WHITES USUALLY DEPICTED WITH HATS AND GUNS, INDIANS SOMETIMES WITH FEATHER OR HORN HEADDRESSES AND GUNS, TOMAHAWKS, BOWS, ARROWS AND SHIELDS. SOME OF THE GUNS APPEAR TO BE FLINTLOCKS. INITIALS"FM" APPEAR FOUR TIMES ON PAINTING; DONORS IDENTIFY AS "FRANK MONROE".
label: Notes
content: See pp. 76 - 80 (and Fig. 18 p. 77) in Dempsey, L. James. 2007. Blackfoot war art: pictographs of the reservation period, 1880-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Dempsey identifies "FM" as possibly Francois (Frank) Munroe, son of trader Hugh Munroe and Kit Fox Woman, and brother of John Munroe. He notes that this robe is similar to one in the Peabody Museum at Yale, # 9175 (Fig. 19 p. 79), and may have been made by the same person. The Yale robe shows the experiences of John Munroe and includes his initials "JM".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 18 May 2018
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Blackfoot (Niitsitapi, Siksikaitsitapi)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 390845
label: USNM Number
content: E425929-0
objectType: label: Object Type
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physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 133 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 117 cm