War Shirt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 14 Sep 1898
name: label: Collector
content: Emile Granier
label: Donor Name
content: Emile Granier
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "SPLENDID GARMENT OF BUCKSKIN, PAINTED BEADED AND QUILLED AND ADORNED WITH SCALP LOCKS* OF BOTH WHITES AND INDIANS. BELONGED TO CHIEF WHITE FOREHEAD. SYMBOLISM TWO RED HANDS. *THOUGH AN EARLY LABEL SAID THERE WERE SCALP LOCKS OF WHITE MEN AND WOMEN ON THIS, IN 1958 THERE WERE NONE, ONLY WRAPPED STRANDS OF HUMAN HAIR, AND THERE WERE NO PLACES SHOWING WHERE THEY COULD HAVE BEEN REMOVED. ALSO WHEN ACQUIRED IT HAD 5 LEAD MEDALS AND ONLY ONE WAS LEFT FEB. 1958-R. ELDER"
label: Notes
content: Decoration includes quill-wrapped horsehair, per p. 66 in Holm, Bill, 2001, "Quill-Wrapped Horsehair: Two Rare Quilling Techniques", pp. 53-68 in Feest, Christian F. 2001. Studies in American Indian art: a memorial tribute to Norman Feder. Altenstadt, Germany: European Review of Native American Studies.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Mar 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Montana, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Crow (Apsaalooke)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 034005
label: USNM Number
content: E200631-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Shirt