Dress
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1 Jun 1989
label: Collection Date
content: May 1988
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Joallyn Archambault
label: Donor Name
content: Vanessa Morgan
notes: label: Notes
content: WHITE PAINTED THREE-SKIN DRESS, WITH PONCHO STYLE BODICE AND CAPE-LIKE SLEEVES OPEN AT BOTTOM. SKIN FRINGE AT SEAMS, SLEEVES, HEM, AND AS DECORATIVE ELEMENTS ON BODY OF DRESS. YELLOW PAINT AT NECK AND HEM. DECORATION: NINE ROWS OF ELK TEETH ON FRONT AND BACK OF BODICE, COPPER BELLS, AND MESCAL BEANS. LAZY STITCH SEED BEADWORK AT NECK AND HEM IN WHITE, RUST, GREEN, PURPLE, BLUES, REDS, AND YELLOWS. ABSTRACT OVERLAY FLORAL OVERLAY ELEMENT ON FRONT IN RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, WHITE AND BLUES. PURCHASED NEW FROM MAKER VANESSA MORGAN. BEADWORK AT HEM ON BACK LEFT UNFINISHED BY MORGAN AND COMPLETED AFTER DRESS RECEIVED BY JOALLYN ARCHAMBAULT, STANDING ROCK SIOUX.
label: Notes
content: SEE LOAN FILE
label: Notes
content: White painted buckskin with yellow paint at neck and hem. Poncho-style top attached to skirt, fringed at seams and hem with long fringe on tabs and sleeves. Lazy stitch beadwork at neck and hem, abstract floral overlay beadwork on front. Decorated with rows of elk teeth on bodice, bells and mescal beans on skirt. 39" (99 cm). Records: Purchased from the maker, Vanessa Morgan, in 1988. The dress was new when acquired and was not quite complete, lacking a few lanes of beadwork, which were completed after the dress was received by JoAllyn Archambault, Standing Rock Sioux, and Director of the American Indian Program, National Museum of Natural History. Associated names: Vanessa Morgan. (from Merrill, William L. et al. 1997. A Guide to the Kiowa Collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, no. 40. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.)
label: Record Last Modified
content: 28 Jan 2023
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Kiowa
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 380526
label: USNM Number
content: E425672-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 119 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 91 cm