Child's Dress Decorated
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Oct 1881
name: label: Collector
content: George Catlin
label: Donor Name
content: Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Skin dress (fragmentary, brittle); decorated with two quilled rosettes on breasts (each 2 3/4" diam) and quilled, bilaterally symmetrical heart and leaf design in upper middle of back. Round holes cut in skin in design pattern front and back; also quilled strips over shoulders; neck, side and bottom cut skin fringe. Possibly Ojibwa - John C. Ewers, Jan. 16, 1948." Identified as possibly Cree? by Morgan Baillargeon, Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2009.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 2 Apr 2021
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: United States / Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Chippewa (Ojibwe, Anishinaabe) (?)
label: Culture
content: Cree (?)
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 010638
label: USNM Number
content: E386529-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Dress