Tipi Lining
date: label: Accession Date
content: 6 Feb 1937
name: label: Collector
content: Maj. George K. Sanderson
label: Donor Name
content: Wittenberg College
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CONDITION REPORT AFTER REMOVAL FROM NMNH EXHIBIT HALL 9 (C. VALENTOUR 3/98): "2 SKINS JOINED IN THE MIDDLE W/ SINEW. DECORATED W/ HORIZONTAL BANDS OF GLASS BEADS & RED WOOL TUFTS. TOP ROW OF BEADS DECORATED W/ TASSELS OF BUCKSKIN THONGS WRAPPED W/ QUILLS, ENDING W/ DEW CLAWS & TUFTS OF HAIR. TOP EDGE OF SKIN HAS 6 BUCKSKIN THONG TIES REMAINING. VARIOUS ETHNOGRAPHIC HOLES AROUND EDGES FOR JOINING W/ ANOTHER LINING. EACH CORNER HAS A DART SEWN W/ SINEW TO SHAPE THE CORNER. BOTTOM LENGTH HAS ADDITIONAL PIECE OF SKIN SEWN ON."
label: Notes
content: From card: "Beaded bands; porcupine quill wrapped fringes. Identification [as Southern Cheyenne tipi lining] by Father Peter J. Powell on basis of style. - W. Merrill 10-14-1990".
label: Record Last Modified
content: 13 May 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Plains, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Cheyenne (Tsitsistas, Suhtai), Southern
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 137634
label: USNM Number
content: E378336-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Tipi Lining
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 406 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 160 cm
label: Height - Object
content: 5 cm